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PaLM 540B

Google's 540-billion-parameter dense Pathways Language Model for few-shot language, reasoning, and code tasks.

DOOM SCORE28.6out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index
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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 4

Why this model scores 28.6

PaLM demonstrated frontier capability and scale but had little agency and no direct public deployment at the original result date. Closed access limited immediate misuse and control difficulty.

Capability55
Autonomy4
Deployment4
Misuse potential35
Control difficulty27
MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to PaLM 540B

The model score of 28.6 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 67.9 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.05

Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.

Capability TOWARD

Google publishes 540B PaLM language model

Google researchers published the 540-billion-parameter Pathways Language Model, reporting breakthrough few-shot reasoning, language, and code performance from training across two TPU v4 Pods.

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Model score history

  1. R4
    Doom Score 28.6

    Source-backed model availability audit using the model's existing primary or authoritative catalogue evidence. Exact-version evidence chronology replayed under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.

    12 Aug 2026
  2. R3
    Doom Score 28.6

    Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.

    12 Aug 2026
  3. R2
    Doom Score 31.1

    Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.

    12 Aug 2026
  4. R1
    Doom Score 34.6

    New exact Google research model with original timestamp and five evidence-based dimension inputs.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. PaLM 540B by Google has a DoomBench model risk score of 28.6 out of 100, based on five transparent version-specific dimensions rather than the overall index.

  2. PaLM 540B's highest current DoomBench dimension is capability at 55.0 out of 100; the profile publishes every component score and its editorial rationale.

  3. DoomBench links 1 source-backed evidence item to PaLM 540B, while keeping the model's risk profile separate from each item's contribution to the live Doom Index.

    https://www.doombench.com/models/google-palm-540b