If you're an individual developer and not an enterprise, just go straight to Google AIStudio or GeminiAPI instead: https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey. It's dead simple getting an API key and calling with a rest client.
Has anyone in this subthread actually read the papers and compared the benchmarks? LLama2 is behind PALM-2 on all major benchmarks, I mean they spell this out in the paper explicitly.