>the lamda model (the one that got that guy fired)

By their own admission, they launched with a much smaller model than the one the got the guy fired.

>I suspect at some time in the near future, if they haven't done so already, they'll just quietly move Bard's underlying language model to Gemini.

would it really be quiet ? They do say they updated the model today though and i'm curious about that

https://bard.google.com/updates