Med-PaLM 2

Google · 2023 · Medical LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Google
C · CEO & Politics: Sundar Pichai — Centrist / historically bipartisan
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist), Sundar Pichai (CEO Alphabet)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Medical LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Proprietary
P · Pricing: Retired (offered on Google Cloud as MedLM, which ended Sept 29, 2025)
Q · AIDb Rating: 6/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 7/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 7/10 → 6.4
R · What Makes It Special: Google Research's Med-PaLM 2, introduced in March 2023, which combined PaLM 2 with medical fine-tuning and prompting strategies including ensemble refinement to score 86.5% on MedQA US Medical Licensing Exam-style questions, the first expert-level result and over 19% better than Med-PaLM; physicians preferred its long-form answers to physicians' own on eight of nine axes, and it was one of the research models behind Google Cloud's MedLM.
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 Medical LLM from Google, released 2023.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Med-PaLM 2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/med-palm-2.html