This seems overshadowed by the GPT-4 news, but apparently Google is also releasing PaLM and an API along with “MakerSuite, a tool that lets developers start prototyping quickly and easily.”
Not many details yet (perhaps they rushed this out to compete with the GPT-4 announcement?), but some features of the API will include:
Generation access for an “efficient” PaLM model, starting today
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning
Synthetic data generation
Embeddings
Built-in “AI Principles”
Automatic scaling with Google Cloud
And apparently, it’s also being incorporated into Google Workspace (Gmail and Google Docs).
Also Anthropic’s Claude. All three LLMs with API access announced on the same day.