diff --git a/test/collection/test_config.py b/test/collection/test_config.py
index dd91855cb..90f3304a7 100644
--- a/test/collection/test_config.py
+++ b/test/collection/test_config.py
@@ -321,11 +321,11 @@ def test_basic_config():
         },
     ),
     (
-        Configure.Vectorizer.text2vec_palm(
+        Configure.Vectorizer.text2vec_google(
             project_id="project",
         ),
         {
-            "text2vec-palm": {
+            "text2vec-google": {
                 "projectId": "project",
                 "vectorizeClassName": True,
             }
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ def test_basic_config():
             project_id="project",
         ),
         {
-            "text2vec-palm": {
+            "text2vec-google": {
                 "projectId": "project",
                 "vectorizeClassName": True,
             }
@@ -345,21 +345,21 @@ def test_basic_config():
     (
         Configure.Vectorizer.text2vec_google_aistudio(),
         {
-            "text2vec-palm": {
+            "text2vec-google": {
                 "apiEndpoint": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com",
                 "vectorizeClassName": True,
             }
         },
     ),
     (
-        Configure.Vectorizer.text2vec_palm(
+        Configure.Vectorizer.text2vec_palm( # not changed to text2vec_google to ensure BC
             project_id="project",
             api_endpoint="api.google.com",
             model_id="model",
             vectorize_collection_name=False,
         ),
         {
-            "text2vec-palm": {
+            "text2vec-google": {
                 "projectId": "project",
                 "apiEndpoint": "api.google.com",
                 "modelId": "model",
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ def test_basic_config():
             vectorize_collection_name=False,
         ),
         {
-            "text2vec-palm": {
+            "text2vec-google": {
                 "projectId": "project",
                 "apiEndpoint": "api.google.com",
                 "modelId": "model",
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ def test_basic_config():
         },
     ),
     (
-        Configure.Vectorizer.multi2vec_palm(
+        Configure.Vectorizer.multi2vec_palm( # not changed to _google to ensure BC
             image_fields=["image"],
             text_fields=["text"],
             video_fields=["video"],
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ def test_basic_config():
             location="us-central1",
         ),
         {
-            "multi2vec-palm": {
+            "multi2vec-google": {
                 "imageFields": ["image"],
                 "textFields": ["text"],
                 "videoFields": ["video"],
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ def test_basic_config():
             location="us-central1",
         ),
         {
-            "multi2vec-palm": {
+            "multi2vec-google": {
                 "imageFields": ["image"],
                 "textFields": ["text"],
                 "videoFields": ["video"],
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ def test_vector_config_flat_pq() -> None:
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "text2vec-palm": {
+                    "text2vec-google": {
                         "projectId": "project",
                         "properties": ["prop"],
                         "vectorizeClassName": True,
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ def test_vector_config_flat_pq() -> None:
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "text2vec-palm": {
+                    "text2vec-google": {
                         "projectId": "project",
                         "properties": ["prop"],
                         "vectorizeClassName": True,
@@ -1678,7 +1678,7 @@ def test_vector_config_flat_pq() -> None:
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "text2vec-palm": {
+                    "text2vec-google": {
                         "apiEndpoint": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com",
                         "properties": ["prop"],
                         "vectorizeClassName": True,
@@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ def test_vector_config_flat_pq() -> None:
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "multi2vec-palm": {
+                    "multi2vec-google": {
                         "imageFields": ["image"],
                         "textFields": ["text"],
                         "projectId": "project",
@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ def test_vector_config_flat_pq() -> None:
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "multi2vec-palm": {
+                    "multi2vec-google": {
                         "imageFields": ["image"],
                         "textFields": ["text"],
                         "projectId": "project",
@@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@ def test_config_with_named_vectors(
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "text2vec-palm": {
+                    "text2vec-google": {
                         "projectId": "project",
                         "properties": ["prop"],
                         "vectorizeClassName": True,
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ def test_config_with_named_vectors(
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "text2vec-palm": {
+                    "text2vec-google": {
                         "apiEndpoint": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com",
                         "properties": ["prop"],
                         "vectorizeClassName": True,
@@ -2322,7 +2322,7 @@ def test_config_with_named_vectors(
         {
             "test": {
                 "vectorizer": {
-                    "multi2vec-palm": {
+                    "multi2vec-google": {
                         "imageFields": ["image"],
                         "textFields": ["text"],
                         "projectId": "project",
diff --git a/weaviate/collections/classes/config_vectorizers.py b/weaviate/collections/classes/config_vectorizers.py
index 0dab65f24..908396064 100644
--- a/weaviate/collections/classes/config_vectorizers.py
+++ b/weaviate/collections/classes/config_vectorizers.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class Vectorizers(str, Enum):
         TEXT2VEC_GPT4ALL: Weaviate module backed by GPT-4-All text-based embedding models.
         TEXT2VEC_HUGGINGFACE: Weaviate module backed by HuggingFace text-based embedding models.
         TEXT2VEC_OPENAI: Weaviate module backed by OpenAI and Azure-OpenAI text-based embedding models.
-        TEXT2VEC_PALM: Weaviate module backed by PaLM text-based embedding models.
+        TEXT2VEC_GOOGLE: Weaviate module backed by a Google (and formerly PaLM) text-based embedding models.
         TEXT2VEC_TRANSFORMERS: Weaviate module backed by Transformers text-based embedding models.
         TEXT2VEC_JINAAI: Weaviate module backed by Jina AI text-based embedding models.
         TEXT2VEC_VOYAGEAI: Weaviate module backed by Voyage AI text-based embedding models.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class Vectorizers(str, Enum):
         TEXT2VEC_WEAVIATE: Weaviate module backed by Weaviate's self-hosted text-based embedding models.
         IMG2VEC_NEURAL: Weaviate module backed by a ResNet-50 neural network for images.
         MULTI2VEC_CLIP: Weaviate module backed by a Sentence-BERT CLIP model for images and text.
-        MULTI2VEC_PALM: Weaviate module backed by a palm model for images and text.
+        MULTI2VEC_GOOGLE: Weaviate module backed by a Google (and formerly PaLM) model for images and text.
         MULTI2VEC_BIND: Weaviate module backed by the ImageBind model for images, text, audio, depth, IMU, thermal, and video.
         MULTI2VEC_VOYAGEAI: Weaviate module backed by a Voyage AI multimodal embedding models.
         MULTI2VEC_NVIDIA: Weaviate module backed by NVIDIA multimodal embedding models.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class Vectorizers(str, Enum):
     TEXT2VEC_NVIDIA = "text2vec-nvidia"
     TEXT2VEC_OLLAMA = "text2vec-ollama"
     TEXT2VEC_OPENAI = "text2vec-openai"
-    TEXT2VEC_PALM = "text2vec-palm"  # change to google once 1.27 is the lowest supported version
+    TEXT2VEC_GOOGLE = "text2vec-google"
     TEXT2VEC_TRANSFORMERS = "text2vec-transformers"
     TEXT2VEC_JINAAI = "text2vec-jinaai"
     TEXT2VEC_VOYAGEAI = "text2vec-voyageai"
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class Vectorizers(str, Enum):
     MULTI2VEC_JINAAI = "multi2vec-jinaai"
     MULTI2MULTI_JINAAI = "multi2multivec-jinaai"
     MULTI2VEC_BIND = "multi2vec-bind"
-    MULTI2VEC_PALM = "multi2vec-palm"  # change to google once 1.27 is the lowest supported version
+    MULTI2VEC_GOOGLE = "multi2vec-google"
     MULTI2VEC_VOYAGEAI = "multi2vec-voyageai"
     MULTI2VEC_NVIDIA = "multi2vec-nvidia"
     REF2VEC_CENTROID = "ref2vec-centroid"
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ def _to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
 
 class _Text2VecGoogleConfig(_VectorizerConfigCreate):
     vectorizer: Union[Vectorizers, _EnumLikeStr] = Field(
-        default=Vectorizers.TEXT2VEC_PALM, frozen=True, exclude=True
+        default=Vectorizers.TEXT2VEC_GOOGLE, frozen=True, exclude=True
     )
     projectId: Optional[str]
     apiEndpoint: Optional[str]
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ class _Multi2VecClipConfig(_Multi2VecBase):
 
 class _Multi2VecGoogleConfig(_Multi2VecBase, _VectorizerConfigCreate):
     vectorizer: Union[Vectorizers, _EnumLikeStr] = Field(
-        default=Vectorizers.MULTI2VEC_PALM, frozen=True, exclude=True
+        default=Vectorizers.MULTI2VEC_GOOGLE, frozen=True, exclude=True
     )
     videoFields: Optional[List[Multi2VecField]]
     projectId: str