Introduction to Vertex AI
Explore Vertex AI and some of its key features.
What is Vertex AI?
Vertex AI is a unified platform from Google Cloud that allows us to build, deploy, and manage large generative AI and machine learning models. It also provides access to more than 150 foundation models, including the latest Gemini models. It enables users to create models without extensive coding and limited machine learning expertise. It essentially combines different AI development functionalities into a single, user-friendly environment.
Vertex AI is a paid service, but new users get up to $300 in free credits when signing up. Different tools have different prices. Check out this link for more information about pricing.
Key features
As mentioned earlier, Vertex AI provides a one-stop shop for your machine learning needs. Let’s explore a few key features that Vertex AI offers and the new experiences it can enable.
Access to generative models
Vertex AI offers an ML model library called Model Garden. This not only provides access to Google’s own models, such as Gemini, but also offers third-party open-source models, such as Mistral, Llama, and Stable Diffusion. Anthrophic’s Claude family of models is also available. These models can be tuned, customized, and easily deployed to applications. Being on the cloud allows us to easily scale these models according to our needs.
AutoML and custom training
Vertex AI offers options for both automated and custom machine learning training. AutoML is a powerful tool that automates the machine learning pipeline, making it ideal for users who might not have ...