PaLM 2

PaLM 2 is Google's 2023 LLM with 340B+ parameters, built for reasoning and multilingual tasks. It's not a consumer chatbot but an API-first foundation model akin to GPT-3.5, powering developer tools like VS Code plugins, Project IDX, and Android Studio Bot for code generation and explanation.

Accessible for testing on platforms like Poe (community report, not official), but API pricing is absent from available evidence; production costs require Google Cloud's official pricing. Trial feedback notes acceptable response speed, but Chinese language support is lacking.

Best suited for developers in the Google ecosystem (Android, Firebase) and researchers experimenting with reasoning prompts. Not ideal for those needing GPT-4-class performance or robust Chinese output. It's positioned around GPT-3.5 level, not a GPT-4 competitor.

Community discussion is high on feature announcements (high X impressions) but low on real-world usage reports, making it more hype than proven. Evidence is mostly official demos and research papers; detailed hands-on reviews are scarce. Evaluate with conservative expectations.