Capability gains

Google introduces LaMDA for open-ended conversation

Google introduced LaMDA as a Transformer-based dialogue research breakthrough capable of open-ended conversation across topics; the family later provided the language-model foundation for Google's publicly deployed Bard service.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM46confidence 90/100

Why it moved the index

LaMDA materially advanced general open-ended conversational capability. Google's later public Bard deployment provides separate practical-impact evidence for the family, while the exact served checkpoint remained undisclosed and is therefore not attached as a model record.

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  1. R1
    Toward 46 · confidence 90

    New May 2021 research result with separately verified practical deployment absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026