Google’s LaMDA will enable open-ended voice conversations This might be the voice search functionality we’ve all been waiting for. George Nguyen on May 19, 2021 at 12:27 pm Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, previewed a new conversational model called LaMDA, or “Language Model for Dialogue Applications,” at the company’s I/O event on Tuesday. The new language model is designed to carry on an open-ended conversation with a human user without repeating information. LaMDA is still in early-phase research, with no rollout dates announced. An example conversation with LaMDA (grey text box) and a user (purple text box). Image: Google.