Google Research announces PaLM (540B)
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PaLM (Pathways Language Model) announced — a 540B dense decoder-only Transformer trained on 6,144 TPU v4 chips with Pathways
Why it matters
The first large-scale use of the Pathways system; reported surpassing the few-shot performance of prior large models such as GPT-3, Gopher and Chinchilla on 28 of 29 English NLP tasks
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Officialresearch.googlehttps://research.google/blog/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to-540-billion-parameters-for-breakthrough-performance/Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week
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