LaMDA
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sundar Pichai — Centrist / historically bipartisan
- D · Date
- 2021
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud only (proprietary)
- 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; powered Bard at its Feb 2023 launch)
- 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 LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications, announced May 18, 2021), a family of Transformer language models specialized for open-ended dialogue, with up to 137B parameters pre-trained on 1.56 trillion words of public dialogue data and web text; fine-tuning on annotated data and letting it consult external tools such as a retrieval system, translator and calculator improved its safety and factual grounding, and a lightweight version first powered Bard in 2023.
- 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
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary LLM from Google, released 2021.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“LaMDA.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/lamda-google.html
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