Google announces PaLM 2 AI language model, already powering 25 Google services
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PaLM 2 is Google's latest and greatest AI language model. | Image: Google Google has announced PaLM 2: its latest AI language model and competitor to rival systems like OpenAI's GPT-4.
PaLM 2 models are stronger in logic and reasoning, thanks to broad training in logic and reasoning," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai onstage at the company's I/O conference. It's also trained on multilingual text spanning over 100 languages."
PaLM 2 is much better at a range of text-based tasks, Google senior research director Slav Petrov told journalists in a roundtable prior to the model's announcement at Google's I/O conference, including reasoning, coding, and translation. It is significantly improved compared to PaLM 1 [which was announced in April 2022]," said Petrov.
As an example of its multilingual capabilities,...