Gopher
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- DeepMind
- C · CEO & Politics
- Demis Hassabis — Centrist / pro-science / UK establishment
- D · Date
- 2021
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Research
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- UK
- K · Key Staffers
- Shane Legg (Co-Founder, Chief AGI Scientist), Koray Kavukcuoglu (CTO), John Jumper
- 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 4/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.00
- R · What Makes It Special
- Google DeepMind's Gopher (December 8, 2021), a 280-billion-parameter Transformer language model, the largest in a series starting at 44 million parameters, evaluated on 152 tasks with state-of-the-art results on most; scale helped most in reading comprehension, fact-checking and identifying toxic language and least in logical and mathematical reasoning, it moved toward human expert performance on MMLU, and DeepMind noted failure modes such as repetition, bias and confident errors.
- 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
- @GoogleDeepMind
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary LLM from DeepMind, released 2021.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Gopher.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/gopher-deepmind.html
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