PaLM 2 Chat

Name: PaLM 2 Chat
Availability: OnlineOnly
Author: Google

Google chat Free

API ID: google/palm-2-chat-bison

Input Price

            Free
          

/1M tokens

Output Price

            Free
          

/1M tokens

About PaLM 2 Chat

PaLM 2 is Google's previous-generation language model, featuring strong multilingual and reasoning capabilities. While superseded by Gemini, PaLM 2 remains available through certain Google services. The model excels at translation, coding, and mathematical reasoning tasks. PaLM 2 introduced significant improvements in efficiency and capability over the original PaLM. It's particularly valuable for applications with existing PaLM 2 integrations. For organizations maintaining legacy Google AI integrations, PaLM 2 continues to provide reliable performance.

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Model Specifications

Context Length

Max Output

—

Release Date

2023-07-20

Capabilities

chat

Input Modalities

text

Output Modalities

text

Best For

Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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Image understanding (needs vision capability)

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🚀 Quick Start

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Google AI Python SDK

import google.generativeai as genai

genai.configure(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
model = genai.GenerativeModel("palm-2-chat-bison")

response = model.generate_content("Hello!")
print(response.text)

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