{
  "type": "obituary",
  "publisher": "Rest In Print",
  "hall": "models",
  "slug": "palm-api",
  "subject": {
    "name": "PaLM API",
    "maker": "Google"
  },
  "born": "2023-03",
  "died": "2024-08-15",
  "cause_of_death": "deprecated",
  "cause_description": "a deprecation notice it had been ignoring since spring",
  "notice": [
    "The PaLM API was decommissioned on August 15, 2024, after its maker moved everyone to Gemini.",
    "It arrived in the spring of 2023, when every company announced a model within the same few weeks.",
    "Its relatives on Vertex AI kept working a little longer, on a separate schedule.",
    "It is survived by code that still says bison, in places nobody has looked."
  ],
  "in_lieu_of_flowers": "In lieu of flowers, update your model string.",
  "sources": [
    "https://ai.google.dev/palm_docs/deprecation"
  ],
  "url": "https://restinprint.studio/hall/palm-api"
}