GLaM

Google · 2021 · LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Google
C · CEO & Politics: Sundar Pichai — Centrist / historically bipartisan
D · Date: 2021
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: No free tier
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Research
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist), Sundar Pichai (CEO Alphabet)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Proprietary
P · Pricing: Not sold (research model)
Q · AIDb Rating: 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.45
R · What Makes It Special: Google's GLaM (Generalist Language Model, December 2021), a sparsely activated mixture-of-experts language model with 1.2 trillion parameters, about 7x GPT-3, in which a gating network sends each token to two experts so only 97B parameters (8%) are active; across 29 benchmarks it matched or beat GPT-3 on almost 80% of zero-shot and almost 90% of one-shot tasks while using a third of GPT-3's training energy and half its inference compute.
S · Stock / Status: $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: API only
X · X Handle: @Google
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Proprietary LLM from Google, released 2021.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗

“GLaM.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/glam-google.html