Vertex AI - Highlights

Vertex AI is Google's end-to-end AI-ML Platform.

Vertex AI Platform unifies the entire ML workflow from training to deployment.

Source: Vertex AI home page

Vertex AI provides several options for model training and deployment:

• AutoML lets you train tabular, image, text, or video data without writing code or preparing data splits.
• Custom training gives you complete control over the training process, including using your preferred ML framework, writing your own training code, and choosing hyperparameter tuning options.
• Model Garden lets you discover, test, customize, and deploy Vertex AI and select open-source (OSS) models and assets.
• Generative AI gives you access to Google's large generative AI models for multiple modalities (text, code, images, speech). You can tune Google's LLMs to meet your needs, and then deploy them for use in your AI-powered applications.

Vertex AI offers the following Google proprietary foundation Gen AI model APIs:

1. Gemini API - Multimodal data, text, code, and chat
2. PaLM API - Text, chat, and embeddings
3. Codey APIs - Code generation, code chat, and code completion
4. Imagen API - Image generation, image editing, image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal embedding
5. MedLM API - HIPAA-compliant suite of medically tuned models and APIs powered by Google Research.

Access to the MedLM API models is restricted.

In addition to these first-party models, Model Garden includes third-party (like Anthropic Claude 2), and open source models (like Llama 2). 

Vertex AI Studio is a Google Cloud console tool for rapidly prototyping and testing generative AI models.