Release notes

This page documents production updates to all AI Platform products. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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June 08, 2021

AI Platform Prediction

Runtime version 2.5 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.5 to serve online predictions with TensorFlow 2.5.1, scikit-learn 0.24.1, or XGBoost 1.4.0. Runtime version 2.5 does not support batch prediction.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.5.

June 02, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M71 release

Upgraded TensorFlow Probability, TensorFlow I/O, and TensorFlow Estimator in TensorFlow 2.5 containers.

Deep Learning VM Images

M71 Release

Refreshed the Debian-10 images (Ubuntu images not refreshed in this release).
Upgraded TensorFlow Probability, TensorFlow I/O, and TensorFlow Estimator in TensorFlow 2.5 images.
Added support for a Post Startup script and provided status in guest attributes.
TensorFlow 2.x image names are now available in two formats: tf-xxx-2-y-zzz (the new standard format) tf2-xxx-2-y-zzz (the previous standard format). Image names in the previous standard format will be deprecated in a future release.

May 14, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M70 Release

Added TensorFlow Enterprise 2.5 containers. Note this is an Enterprise version but not a Long Term Support (LTS) version.

Deep Learning VM Images

M70 Release

Added TensorFlow Enterprise 2.5 images. Note this is an Enterprise version but not a Long Term Support (LTS) version.

May 13, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M69 Release

Updated cuDNN from 8.0.4 to 8.0.5.

Deep Learning VM Images

M69 Release

Migrated Collection Agent to Cloud Monitoring version 2.

May 05, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M68 Release

Upgraded R containers from 3.6 to 4.0.
Added xai-tabular-widget onto all TensorFlow containers.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and updates.

Deep Learning VM Images

M68 Release

Upgraded R Images from 3.6 to 4.0.
Added xai-tabular-widget onto all TensorFlow images.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and updates.

April 19, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M67 Release

Added Horovod to TensorFlow GPU containers.
Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

Deep Learning VM Images

M67 Release

GPU support added for Beam Notebooks.
Added Horovod to TensorFlow GPU Deep Learning VMs.
Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

April 16, 2021

AI Platform Prediction

Runtime version 2.4 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.4 to serve online predictions with TensorFlow 2.4.1, scikit-learn 0.24.0, or XGBoost 1.3.1. Runtime version 2.4 does not support batch prediction.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.4.

March 31, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M66 Release

PyTorch 1.8 support in deep learning environments (Deep Learning VM Image and Deep Learning Containers) is available.
Fixed scope allocator optimization issue with the TensorFlow Enterprise 2.3/2.1 MKL build.

Deep Learning VM Images

M66 Release

PyTorch 1.8 support in deep learning environments (Deep Learning VM Image and Deep Learning Containers) is available.
Fixed scope allocator optimization issue with the TensorFlow Enterprise 2.3/2.1 MKL build.
Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

March 26, 2021

Notebooks

Cross Project Service Account support

March 05, 2021

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now provides pre-built PyTorch containers for PyTorch 1.7.

In addition to training with CPUs or GPUs, you can use one of the PyTorch 1.7 containers to perform PyTorch training with a TPU.

Deep Learning Containers

M65 release

Upgraded tensorflow-cloud to 0.1.13.
Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

Deep Learning VM Images

M65 release

Added support for DooD (Docker outside of Docker) in Dataflow notebooks container images.
Upgraded tensorflow-cloud to 0.1.13.
Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

March 04, 2021

Notebooks

New Notebooks instances add labels for VM image (goog-caip-notebook) and volume (goog-caip-notebook-volume).

February 19, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M64 release

Upgraded TensorFlow 2.4 to 2.4.1.
Upgraded TFX and Fairness Indicators from 0.26.0 to 0.27.0.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and updates.

Swift For TensorFlow

The Swift For TensorFlow project is entering archive mode. Containers will be deprecated and will no longer receive updates after this release.

Deep Learning VM Images

M64 release

Upgraded TensorFlow 2.4 to 2.4.1.
Upgraded TFX and Fairness Indicators from 0.26.0 to 0.27.0.
Added the Fast.ai book tutorials to Pytorch images.
Enabled gVNIC for all DLVM images.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and updates.

Swift For TensorFlow

The Swift For TensorFlow project is entering archive mode. Swift images will be deprecated and will no longer receive updates after this release.

February 16, 2021

AI Platform Training

The default boot disk type for virtual machine instances used for training jobs has changed from pd-standard to pd-ssd. Learn more about disk types for custom training and read about pricing for different disk types.

Note that for training jobs where you don't specify a DiskConfig, pricing does not change. This is because the first 100 GB of disk for each VM do not incur any charge, regardless of disk type.

February 10, 2021

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 2.4 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.4 to train with TensorFlow 2.4.1, scikit-learn 0.24.0, or XGBoost 1.3.1. Runtime version 2.4 supports training with CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.4.

February 08, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

M63 release

SWIFT 0.12 (experimental) containers are available.

Deep Learning VM Images

M63 release

Nvidia driver is upgraded to 450.80.02.
TFX version is upgraded to 0.26.1.
Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

February 01, 2021

AI Platform Training

You can now use E2, N2, and C2 machine types for training. Learn about the specific machine types available for training, and learn about their pricing.

Notebooks

Notebooks Terraform Module supports Notebooks API v1

January 28, 2021

AI Platform Training

You can now use NVIDIA A100 GPUs and several accelerator-optimized (A2) machine types for training. You must use A100 GPUs and A2 machine types together.

A100 GPUs and A2 machine types are available in preview. Learn about their pricing.

January 25, 2021

Deep Learning Containers

General Availability

AI Platform Deep Learning Containers is now generally available.

Python 2

Python 2 is no longer supported in Deep Learning Containers. Read more about Python 2 support on Google Cloud.

M62 release

Upgraded TensorFlow 2.3 to 2.3.2
Upgraded TensorFlow 2.1 to 2.1.3
Miscellaneous bug fixes and updates

Deep Learning VM Images

Python 2

Python 2 is no longer supported in Deep Learning VM Image. Read more about Python 2 support on Google Cloud.

M62 release

Upgraded TensorFlow 2.3 to 2.3.2
Upgraded TensorFlow 2.1 to 2.1.3
Miscellaneous bug fixes and updates

January 23, 2021

Notebooks

VPC-SC for Notebooks is now Generally Available

Notebooks API supports Shielded VM configuration

January 20, 2021

AI Platform Prediction

The VPC Service Controls integration with AI Platform Prediction is now generally available.

AI Platform Training

Training with a custom service account is now generally available.

Support for VPC Network Peering is now generally available.

January 15, 2021

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now provides pre-built PyTorch containers for PyTorch 1.6.

In addition to training with CPUs or GPUs, you can use one of the PyTorch 1.6 containers to perform PyTorch training with a TPU.

December 16, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

You can now configure AI Platform Prediction to automatically scale prediction nodes for model versions that use GPUs for online prediction.

Previously, you could only configure manual scaling for model versions that use GPUs. Now, you can choose between automatic and manual scaling.

Using automatic scaling with GPUs is available in preview.

Deep Learning Containers

Added TensorFlow 2.4 Deep Learning Containers images.

Deep Learning VM Images

M60 release

Added TensorFlow 2.4 Deep Learning VM Images

December 09, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Runtime version 2.3 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.3 to serve online predictions with TensorFlow 2.3.1, scikit-learn 0.23.2, or XGBoost 1.2.1. Runtime version 2.3 does not support batch prediction.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.3.

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 2.3 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.3 to train with TensorFlow 2.3.1, scikit-learn 0.23.2, or XGBoost 1.2.1. Runtime version 2.3 supports training with CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.3.

November 12, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M59 release

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

tensorflow_enterprise_addon package is renamed to tensorflow-cloud

November 11, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

The following regional endpoints are now generally available for online prediction, in addition to the regional endpoints that were already available:

us-east1-ml.googleapis.com
us-east4-ml.googleapis.com
us-west1-ml.googleapis.com
northamerica-northeast1-ml.googleapis.com
europe-west1-ml.googleapis.com
europe-west2-ml.googleapis.com
europe-west3-ml.googleapis.com
asia-northeast1-ml.googleapis.com
asia-southeast1-ml.googleapis.com
australia-southeast1-ml.googleapis.com

On some of these regional endpoints, you can use GPUs to accelerate prediction. Learn which types of GPUs are available on which regional endpoints.

Pricing for online prediction varies between regional endpoints. Read about the pricing for each regional endpoint.

October 28, 2020

Deep Learning Containers

Added PyTorch 1.6 CUDA 11 environments that support A100 GPU accelerators. This special PyTorch build provides another option to add to our A100-compatible TensorFlow Enterprise builds.

October 27, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

You can now use use a custom container to customize how you serve predictions. To try using a custom container, read the new tutorial on serving predictions from a PyTorch model.

This feature is in preview.

Console logging (formerly also referred to as "stream logging") is now available in preview for Compute Engine (N1) machine types and in GA for legacy (MLS1) machine types.

Read a new document about using custom service accounts with custom containers or custom prediction routines.

This feature is in beta.

Deep Learning VM Images

M58 release

Added PyTorch 1.6 CUDA 11 images that support A100 GPU accelerators. This special PyTorch build provides another option to add to our A100-compatible TensorFlow Enterprise builds.
Added the PyTorch/XLA package.
Added the Swift for TensorFlow framework.
Added the Ubuntu 18.04 OS.

TensorFlow Enterprise updated to 2.3.1 from 2.3.0.
Debian 10 is now the default OS for Deep Learning VM images.

September 24, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M56 release

Bug fixes for TensorFlow 2.3 add-ons
Fixes bug affecting BigQuery magic commands in some environments
Adds a diagnostics tool for AI Platform Notebooks

September 22, 2020

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training runtime version 2.2 now supports training with TPUs using TensorFlow 2.2.

September 21, 2020

Notebooks

AI Platform Notebooks API is now Generally Available. The API now includes an isUpgradable endpoint and adds manual and auto-upgrade functionality to notebooks instances created using the API.

Cloud Audit Logging for AI Platform Notebooks is now Generally Available.

Granular IAM permissions for AI Platform Notebooks is now Generally Available.

AI Platform Notebooks now supports E2 machine types.

The following new regions have been added:

europe-west2 (London, UK)
europe-west3 (Frankfurt, Germany)
europe-west6 (Zürich, Switzerland)

August 28, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Runtime version 2.2 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.2 to serve online predictions with TensorFlow 2.2.0, scikit-learn 0.23.1, or XGBoost 1.1.1. Runtime version 2.2 does not currently support batch prediction.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.2.

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 2.2 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.2 to train with TensorFlow 2.2.0, scikit-learn 0.23.1, or XGBoost 1.1.1. See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.2.

August 27, 2020

AI Platform Optimizer

AI Platform Optimizer's name has changed to AI Platform Vizier.

August 26, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M55 release

Restricts Jupyter memory usage to fix 5* issues
Updates TensorFlow 2.3 dependencies
Uses CUDA 11.0 in TensorFlow deep learning images
Adds support for the us-east4 region

August 19, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

You can now use runtime version 2.1 to serve online predictions using scikit-learn 0.22.1 and XGBoost 0.90.

August 18, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Compute Engine (N1) machine types for online prediction are now generally available. They are available on all regional endpoints.

The AI Platform Training and Prediction Service Level Agreement does not apply to model versions that use a Compute Engine (N1) machine type and fewer than two prediction nodes.

GPUs for online prediction are now generally available. You can use GPUs to serve predictions when you create a TensorFlow model version that uses a Compute Engine (N1) machine type.

Learn which types of GPU are available on each regional endpoint.

The following regional endpoints for online prediction are now generally available:

us-central1-ml.googleapis.com
europe-west4-ml.googleapis.com
asia-east1-ml.googleapis.com

Using Compute Engine (N1) machine types on the global API endpoint (ml.googleapis.com) is deprecated. This functionality was previously available in beta in the us-central1 region.

To continue to use Compute Engine (N1) machine types in the us-central1 region, create a model on the us-central1-ml.googleapis.com regional endpoint, and then create model versions using that model.

August 17, 2020

AI Platform Training

You can now set a maximum time that you are willing to wait between the moment when you create a training job and the moment when AI Platform Training starts running the job. If your training job has not started running after this duration, AI Platform Training cancels the job. Set the maximum wait time by specifying the scheduling.maxWaitTime field.

Deep Learning Containers

TensorFlow Enterprise 2.3 environments are now available. These environments include support for A100 GPU accelerators, CUDA 11, and TensorFloat-32 (TF32).

August 14, 2020

AI Platform Training

The TabNet built-in algorithm is now available in Beta. You can train models on tabular data for classification and regression problems, and also get feature attributions to help explain the model's behavior.

Try the TabNet built-in algorithm introductory tutorial.

August 10, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M54 release

Added support for the europe-west3 region
Updated the Explainable AI sdk and added explainers
Fixed llvm-openmp support
Added support for instance auto upgrade
Made Deep Learning VM images and Deep Learning Containers more consistent for TPU
Updated NCCL to 2.7.6 in CU110 images
Added the scikit-learn package and container
Added JRE to R images
Limited custom container memory utilization

August 06, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M53 release

TensorFlow Enterprise 2.3 images, including images that support CUDA 11.0, are now available.

August 04, 2020

AI Platform Training

Read a new guide to distributed PyTorch training. You can use this guide with pre-built PyTorch containers, which are in beta.

July 20, 2020

AI Platform Training

Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for AI Platform Training is now generally available.

The VPC Service Controls integration with AI Platform Training is now generally available.

You can now train a PyTorch model on AI Platform Training by using a pre-built PyTorch container. Pre-built PyTorch containers are available in beta.

July 14, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

VPC Service Controls now supports AI Platform Prediction. Learn how to use a service perimeter to protect online prediction. This functionality is in beta.

July 13, 2020

AI Platform Training

You can now configure a training job to run using a custom service account. Using a custom service account can help you customize which Google Cloud resources your training code can access.

This feature is available in beta.

Deep Learning VM Images

M51 release

Allow removing sudo access from Deep Learning Containers.

Debian-10-based images are released. You can create Shielded VM instances from these images.

June 23, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M50 release

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

June 22, 2020

AI Platform Training

You can now use Cloud TPUs for training jobs in the europe-west4 region. TPU v2 accelerators are generally available, and TPU v3 accelerators are available in beta.

Learn how to configure your training job to use TPUs, and read about TPU pricing on AI Platform Training.

June 15, 2020

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now supports private services access in beta. You can use VPC Network Peering to create a private connection so that training jobs can connect to your network on private IP.

Learn how to set up VPC Network Peering with AI Platform Training.

June 11, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M49 release

TensorFlow Enterprise images updated to 1.15.3 and 2.1.1.

The tensorflow-enterprise-addons package is now available in all deep learning environments.

XGBoost, MXNet, R, PyTorch, CNTK, and Caffe images have been updated with library upgrades and bug fixes.

June 08, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

The Total latency chart on the Version details page of the Google Cloud Console was reporting incorrect information. This chart has now been fixed.

In some cases, this adjustment might cause latencies to appear higher than they were previously. However, the latency of models has not changed.

This affects both Compute Engine (N1) machine types and legacy (MLS1) machine types.

May 21, 2020

AI Platform Training

You can now use TPUs with TensorFlow 2.1 when you create a training job with runtime version 2.1. You can also use TPUs with TensorFlow 2.1 when you train in a custom container.

Read the guide to using TPUs with AI Platform Training, which has been updated to show how to use TPUs with TensorFlow 2 APIs.

May 18, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M48 release

TensorFlow 2.2 images have been added. The new TensorFlow 2.2 image families are tf2-2-2-cpu and tf2-2-2-cu101. See the available image families.

May 13, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform Prediction now supports the following regions for batch prediction, in addition to those that were already supported:

northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal)
southamerica-east1 (São Paulo)
australia-southeast1 (Sydney)

See the full list of available regions.

northamerica-northeast1 and southamerica-east1 have the same pricing as other Americas regions, and australia-southeast1 has the same pricing as other Asia Pacific regions. Learn about pricing for each region.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now supports the following regions, in addition to those that were already supported:

northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal)
southamerica-east1 (São Paulo)
australia-southeast1 (Sydney)

GPUs are available for training in each of the new regions:

NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs are available in northamerica-northeast1.
NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs are available in southamerica-east1.
NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs are available in australia-southeast1.

See the full list of available regions and the guide to training with GPUs.

May 12, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M47 release

Fixed an OS login issue under single user mode for a user external to an organization.

Fixed a git extensions plugin issue in TensorFlow 2 images.

April 29, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform Prediction now supports several regional endpoints for online prediction. Regional endpoints provide additional protection against outages in other regions by isolating your model and version resources from other regions. The following regional endpoints are available in beta:

us-central1-ml.googleapis.com
europe-west4-ml.googleapis.com
asia-east1-ml.googleapis.com

You can use these endpoints instead of the global endpoint, ml.googleapis.com, when you use AI Platform Prediction for online prediction. Learn how to use regional endpoints for online prediction, and read about their benefits and limitations.

You can now deploy scikit-learn and XGBoost models for online prediction using Compute Engine (N1) machine types. Previously, you could only deploy TensorFlow models when you used these machine types. Learn more about ML framework support for Compute Engine (N1) machine types.

You cannot use GPUs with scikit-learn or XGBoost models, and you can only use scikit-learn and XGBoost models with Compute Engine (N1) machine types when you deploy your models and versions to a regional endpoint.

Compute Engine (N1) machine types for online prediction remain available in the beta launch stage.

The europe-west4 (Netherlands) and asia-east1 (Taiwan) regions are now available for online prediction. These regions are only available for online prediction on their respective regional endpoints, and you can only use Compute Engine (N1) machine types for online prediction in these regions.

When you deploy model versions in the europe-west4 region, you can optionally use NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla T4, or NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs to accelerate prediction.

When you deploy model versions in the asia-east1 region, you can optionally use NVIDIA Tesla K80 or NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs to accelerate prediction.

Learn more about using GPUs for online prediction, and see which GPUs are available in which regions.

Learn about the pricing for the newly available regions and GPU resources.

We recommend against using Compute Engine (N1) machine types on the AI Platform Prediction global endpoint. Instead, only use Compute Engine (N1) machine types when you deploy models and versions to a regional endpoint.

Model versions that use Compute Engine (N1) machine types and were previously deployed to the us-central1 region on the global endpoint will continue to function.

April 24, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Visualization settings for AI Explanations are now available. You can customize how feature attributions are displayed for image data.

Learn more about visualizing explanations.

April 13, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

The pricing of Compute Engine (N1) machine types for online prediction in the us-central1 region has changed. vCPU resources now cost $0.031613 per vCPU hour and RAM now costs $0.004242 per GB hour.

April 09, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

If you deploy a model version for online prediction that uses runtime version 2.1 with a GPU, AI Platform Prediction now correctly uses TensorFlow 2.1.0 to serve predictions. Previously, AI Platform Prediction used TensorFlow 2.0.0 to serve predictions in this situation.

AI Platform Training

You can now specify virtual machine instances with the evaluator task type as part of your training cluster for distributed training jobs. Read more about evaluators in TensorFlow distributed training, see how to configure machine types for evaluators, and learn about using evaluators with custom containers.

The maximum running time for training jobs now defaults to seven days. If a training job is still running after this duration, AI Platform Training cancels the job.

Learn how to adjust the maximum running time for a job.

April 08, 2020

AI Platform Optimizer

AI Platform Optimizer is now available in beta.

AI Platform Optimizer is a black-box optimization service that helps you tune hyperparameters in complex machine learning models.

Visit the AI Platform Optimizer overview to learn more about how it works. To get started, try using AI Platform Optimizer to optimize a machine learning model or to optimize two functions at once.

April 06, 2020

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 2.1 now includes scikit-learn 0.22.1 instead of scikit-learn 0.22.

April 03, 2020

AI Platform Training

You can now use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect data in your AI Platform Training jobs. This feature is available in beta.

To learn about the benefits and limitations of using CMEK, and to walk through configuring CMEK for a training job, read the guide to using CMEK with AI Platform Training.

March 31, 2020

Notebooks

AI Platform Notebooks is now Generally Available. Some integrations with and specific features of AI Platform Notebooks are still in beta, such as Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls, Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, and AI Platform Notebooks API.

March 27, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

AI Explanations now supports XRAI, a new feature attribution method for image data.

The image tutorial has been updated to include XRAI. In the tutorial, you can deploy an image classification model using both integrated gradients and XRAI, and compare the results.

AI Explanations provides an approximation error with your explanations results.

Learn more about the approximation error and how to improve your explanations results.

AI Platform Prediction now supports the following regions for batch prediction, in addition to those that were already supported:

us-west3 (Salt Lake City)
europe-west2 (London)
europe-west3 (Frankfurt)
europe-west6 (Zurich)
asia-south1 (Mumbai)
asia-east2 (Hong Kong)
asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
asia-northeast2 (Osaka)
asia-northeast3 (Seoul)

Note that asia-northeast1 was already available for online prediction.

See the full list of available regions and read about pricing for each region.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now supports the following regions, in addition to those that were already supported:

us-west3 (Salt Lake City)
europe-west2 (London)
europe-west3 (Frankfurt)
europe-west6 (Zurich)
asia-south1 (Mumbai)
asia-east2 (Hong Kong)
asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
asia-northeast2 (Osaka)
asia-northeast3 (Seoul)

Out of these regions, the following support training with NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs:

europe-west2
asia-south1
aisa-northeast1
asia-northeast3

See the full list of available regions and read about pricing for each region.

March 17, 2020

AI Platform Training

Runtime versions 1.2 through 1.9 are no longer available for training. We recommend that you use runtime version 1.14 or later for your training jobs.

Read more about the AI Platform Training policy for supporting older runtime versions. This policy is being retroactively implemented in several stages for runtime versions 1.13 and earlier.

March 09, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Runtime version 2.1 for AI Platform Prediction is now available.

Runtime version 2.1 is the first runtime version to support TensorFlow 2 for online and batch prediction. Specifically, this runtime version includes TensorFlow 2.1.0. Review the updated guide to exporting TensorFlow SavedModels for use with AI Platform Prediction for details about exporting compatible models by using TensorFlow 2 APIs, like Keras.

When you use runtime version 2.1 for online prediction, you can currently only deploy TensorFlow model versions. You cannot deploy scikit-learn, XGBoost, or custom prediction routine artifacts for online prediction with runtime version 2.1. For the time being, continue to use runtime version 1.15 to serve predictions from these types of models.

Runtime version 2.1 is also the first runtime version not to support Python 2.7. The Python Software Foundation ended support for Python 2.7 on January 1, 2020. No AI Platform runtime versions released after January 1, 2020 support Python 2.7.

If you deploy a model version for online prediction that uses runtime version 2.1 with a GPU, AI Platform Prediction uses TensorFlow 2.0.0 (instead of TensorFlow 2.1.0) to serve predictions. This is a known issue, and the release notes will be updated when online prediction with GPUs supports TensorFlow 2.1.0.

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 2.1 for AI Platform Training is now available.

Runtime version 2.1 is the first runtime version to support TensorFlow 2. Specifically, this runtime version includes TensorFlow 2.1.0. Read the new Training with TensorFlow 2 guide to learn about important differences to consider when using AI Platform Training with TensorFlow 2, compared to TensorFlow 1.

Runtime version 2.1 also updates many other dependencies; see the runtime version list for more details.

Runtime version 2.1 includes scikit-learn 0.22 rather than 0.22.1. This is a known issue, and the release notes will be updated when runtime version 2.1 includes scikit-learn 0.22.1.

When you train with runtime version 2.1 or later, AI Platform Training uses the chief task name to represent the master VM in the TF_CONFIG environment variable. This environment variable is important for distributed training with TensorFlow. For runtime version 1.15 and earlier, AI Platform Training uses the master task name instead, but this task name is not supported in TensorFlow 2.

However, by default, AI Platform Training continues to use the master task name in custom container training jobs. If you are performing multi-worker distributed training with TensorFlow 2 in a custom container, set the new trainingInput.useChiefInTfConfig field to true when you create a custom container training job in order to use the chief task name.

Learn more about this change.

March 06, 2020

AI Platform Training

The built-in linear learner algorithm and the built-in wide and deep algorithm now use TensorFlow 1.14 for training. They previously used TensorFlow 1.12.

The single-replica version of the built-in XGBoost algorithm now uses XGBoost 0.81 for training. It previously used XGBoost 0.80.

March 05, 2020

AI Platform Pipelines

AI Platform Pipelines is now available in beta. AI Platform Pipelines makes it easier to get started with MLOps by saving you the difficulty of setting up Kubeflow Pipelines with TensorFlow Extended (TFX). Kubeflow Pipelines is an open source platform for running, monitoring, auditing, and managing machine learning (ML) pipelines on Kubernetes. TFX is an open source project for building ML pipelines that orchestrate end-to-end ML workflows.

Get started with AI Platform Pipelines.
Learn more about AI Platform Pipelines and ML pipelines.
Orchestrate your ML process as a pipeline.

February 11, 2020

AI Platform Training

You can now set a maximum running time when you create a training job. If your training job is still running after this duration, AI Platform Training cancels the job. Set the maximum running time by specifying the scheduling.maxRunningTime field.

February 10, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

The known issue with using custom prediction routines together with runtime version 1.15 and Python 3.7 has been fixed. The issue was described in a January 23, 2020 release note.

You can now use custom prediction routines with runtime version 1.15 and Python 3.7.

February 05, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

The GPU compatibility issue that was described in the January 7, 2020 release note has been resolved. You can now use GPUs to accelerate prediction on runtime version 1.15.

AI Platform Training

The GPU compatibility issue that was described in the January 7, 2020 release note has been resolved. You can now use GPUs to accelerate training on runtime version 1.15.

February 04, 2020

Notebooks

VPC Service Controls now supports AI Platform Notebooks. Learn how to use a notebook instance within a service perimeter. This functionality is in beta.

February 03, 2020

Notebooks

AI Platform Notebooks now supports Access Transparency. Access Transparency provides you with logs of actions that Google staff have taken when accessing your data. To learn more about Access Transparency, see the Overview of Access Transparency.

January 29, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform Prediction documentation has been reorganized. The new information architecture only includes documents that are relevant to AI Platform Prediction.

Previously, documentation for AI Platform Prediction and AI Platform Training were grouped together. You can now view AI Platform Training documentation separately. Some overviews and tutorials that are relevant to both products are available in the overall AI Platform documentation.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training documentation has been reorganized. The new information architecture only includes documents that are relevant to AI Platform Training.

Previously, documentation for AI Platform Training and AI Platform Prediction were grouped together. You can now view AI Platform Prediction documentation separately. Some overviews and tutorials that are relevant to both products are available in the overall AI Platform documentation.

January 28, 2020

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training runtime version 1.15 now supports training with TPUs using TensorFlow 1.15.

January 23, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Creating an AI Platform Prediction custom prediction routine that uses runtime version 1.15 and Python 3.7 might fail due to a problem with a dependency.

As a workaround, use runtime version 1.15 with Python 2.7 or use a different runtime version when you create your model version.

January 22, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

AI Explanations no longer supports AI Platform Prediction runtime version 1.13. AI Explanations now supports runtime versions 1.14 and 1.15. Learn more about AI Platform Prediction runtime versions supported by AI Explanations.

January 21, 2020

Deep Learning VM Images

M41 release

TensorFlow Enterprise 2.1 images are now available.

MXNet upgraded to 1.5.1.

PyTorch upgraded to 1.4.0.

XGBoost upgraded to 0.90.

January 15, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

The price of using NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs for online prediction has changed from $0.9500 per hour to $0.3500 per hour.

GPUs for online prediction are currently only available when you deploy your model in the us-central1 region and use a Compute Engine (N1) machine type.

January 14, 2020

AI Platform Training

The price of using NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs for training has changed. The following table describes the pricing change for various geographic areas:

Geographic area	Old price per hour	New price per hour
`Americas`	$0.9500	$0.3500
`Europe`	$1.0300	$0.3800
`Asia Pacific`	$1.0300	$0.3900

Read more about using GPUs for training.

January 08, 2020

Deep Learning Containers

TensorFlow Enterprise environments are now available. Use TensorFlow Enterprise with Deep Learning Containers.

January 07, 2020

AI Platform Prediction

Model versions that use both runtime version 1.15 and GPUs fail due to a compatibility issue with the CuDNN library, which TensorFlow depends on.

As a workaround, do one of the following:

If you want to use GPUs to accelerate prediction, then use runtime version 1.14 or earlier.
If you want to use runtime version 1.15, then do not use GPUs for your model version.

AI Platform Training

Training jobs that use both runtime version 1.15 and GPUs fail due to a compatibility issue with the CuDNN library, which TensorFlow depends on.

As a workaround, do one of the following:

If you want to use GPUs to accelerate training, then use runtime version 1.14 or earlier.
If you want to use runtime version 1.15, then do not use GPUs for your training job.

December 20, 2019

AI Platform Training

VPC Service Controls now supports AI Platform Training. Learn how to use a service perimeter to protect your training jobs. This functionality is in beta.

December 19, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform runtime version 1.15 is now available for prediction. This version supports TensorFlow 1.15.0 and includes other packages as listed in the runtime version list.

Runtime version 1.15 is the first runtime version to support serving predictions using Python 3.7, instead of Python 3.5. Runtime version 1.15 also still supports Python 2.7. Learn about specifying the Python version for prediction.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now offers two built-in algorithms to train a machine learning model on image data without writing your own training code:

Both image algorithms are available in beta.

AI Platform runtime version 1.15 is now available for training. This version supports TensorFlow 1.15.0 and includes other packages as listed in the runtime version list.

Runtime version 1.15 is the first runtime version to support training using Python 3.7, instead of Python 3.5. Runtime version 1.15 also still supports Python 2.7. Learn about specifying the Python version for training.

Training with TPUs is not supported in runtime version 1.15 at this time.

December 10, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

Starting January 1, 2020, the Python Software Foundation will no longer support Python 2.7. Accordingly, any runtime versions released after January 1, 2020 will not support Python 2.7.

Starting on January 13, 2020, AI Platform Training and AI Platform Prediction will support each runtime version for one year after its release date. You can find the release date of each runtime version in the runtime version list.

Support for each runtime version changes according to the following schedule:

Starting on the release date: You can create training jobs, batch prediction jobs, and model versions that use the runtime version.
Starting 12 months after the release date: You can no longer create training jobs, batch prediction jobs, or model versions that use the runtime version.

Existing model versions that have been deployed to AI Platform Prediction continue to function.
24 months after the release date: AI Platform Prediction automatically deletes all model versions that use the runtime version.

This policy will be applied retroactively on January 13, 2020. For example, since runtime version 1.0 was released over 24 months ago, AI Platform Training and AI Platform Prediction no longer support it. There will be a three-month grace period (until April 13, 2020) before AI Platform Prediction automatically deletes model versions that use the oldest runtime versions.

The following table describes the first two important dates that mark the end of support for runtime versions:

Date	Runtime versions affected	Change in functionality
January 13, 2020	1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12	You can no longer create training jobs, batch prediction jobs, or model versions using these runtime versions.
April 13, 2020	1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6	AI Platform Prediction automatically deletes any model versions using these runtime versions.

To learn about when availability ends for every runtime version, see the runtime version list.

Starting on January 13, 2020, runtimeVersion and pythonVersion will become required fields when you create Job or Version resources. Previously, runtimeVersion defaulted to 1.0 and pythonVersion defaulted to 2.7.

AI Platform Training

Starting January 1, 2020, the Python Software Foundation will no longer support Python 2.7. Accordingly, any runtime versions released after January 1, 2020 will not support Python 2.7.

Support for each runtime version changes according to the following schedule:

Starting on the release date: You can create training jobs, batch prediction jobs, and model versions that use the runtime version.
Starting 12 months after the release date: You can no longer create training jobs, batch prediction jobs, or model versions that use the runtime version.

Existing model versions that have been deployed to AI Platform Prediction continue to function.
24 months after the release date: AI Platform Prediction automatically deletes all model versions that use the runtime version.

The following table describes the first two important dates that mark the end of support for runtime versions:

Date	Runtime versions affected	Change in functionality
January 13, 2020	1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12	You can no longer create training jobs, batch prediction jobs, or model versions using these runtime versions.
April 13, 2020	1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6	AI Platform Prediction automatically deletes any model versions using these runtime versions.

To learn about when availability ends for every runtime version, see the runtime version list.

Starting on January 13, 2020, AI Platform Training will automatically delete the history of each training job 120 days after it is completed. A training job is considered completed when the job enters the SUCCEEDED, FAILED, or CANCELLED state.

This policy will be applied retroactively on January 13, 2020: all jobs that were completed September 15, 2019 or earlier will be deleted.

December 03, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

You cannot enable request-response logging for AI Platform Prediction when you create a model version. Instead, you must first create a model version without request-response logging enabled, then enable request-response logging by sending a projects.models.versions.patch request to the REST API.

November 27, 2019

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training no longer supports TPUs in runtime version 1.12. You can still train using TPUs in runtime versions 1.13 and 1.14.

November 20, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

AI Explanations now offers feature attributions through AI Platform Prediction. This feature is available in Beta. To gain more insight on your model's predictions, you can use feature attributions based on the sampled Shapley and integrated gradients methods. Try the example notebooks to get started, and refer to the AI Explainability Whitepaper to learn more.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now offers a built-in distributed XGBoost algorithm to train a machine learning model without writing your own training code. This algorithm is available in beta.

The built-in distributed XGBoost algorithm provides functionality similar to the existing single-replica version of the built-in XGBoost algorithm, but it lets you speed up training on large datasets by using multiple virtual machines in parallel. The algorithm also lets you use GPUs for training.

The built-in distributed XGBoost algorithm does not support automatic preprocessing of data.

November 01, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

You can now create a TensorFlow Enterprise Deep Learning VM Image. TensorFlow Enterprise image families provide users with a Google Cloud Platform optimized distribution of TensorFlow with long-term version support. To learn more about TensorFlow Enterprise, read the TensorFlow Enterprise overview.

October 28, 2019

AI Platform Training

We now recommend that you use Compute Engine machine types when you create new AI Platform Training jobs. These machine types offer the greatest flexibility for customizing the virtual CPU (vCPU), RAM, GPU, and TPU resources that your jobs use.

The older machine types available for training, which were previously referred to as "AI Platform Training machine types," are now called "legacy machine types" in the AI Platform Training documentation.

October 24, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

Many Compute Engine (N1) machine types are now available for online prediction in beta, in addition to the existing legacy (MLS1) machine types. When you create a model version with a Compute Engine machine type, you can allocate virtual machines with more vCPU and memory resources for your online prediction nodes, improving throughput of predictions or reducing latency. Additionally, you can use GPUs with these new machine types and deploy TensorFlow models up to 2 GB in size. The machine types are currently only available in the us-central1 region.

Learn more about the features, limitations, and usage of Compute Engine (N1) machine types. Model versions that use Compute Engine (N1) machine types, including with GPUs, are available at no charge until November 14, 2019. Read about the pricing for these machine types that goes into effect on November 14, 2019.

Model versions that use one of the new Compute Engine (N1) machine types and scale to use more than 40 prediction nodes may exhibit high latency when handling online prediction requests. In this case, AI Platform Prediction may also drop requests.

For the best performance until this issue is resolved, do not scale your model version to use more than 40 nodes.

The default max model size for model versions that use a legacy (MLS1) machine type has increased from 250 MB to 500 MB.

October 11, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M36 release

The TensorFlow 2.0 image is out of experimental.

What-If Tool (witwidget) upgraded to 1.4.2 for TensorFlow 1.x images.

October 04, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

The us-west2 (Los Angeles), us-east4 (N. Virginia), and europe-north1 (Finland) regions are now available for batch prediction. Note that us-east4 was already available for online prediction.

Additionally, the us-west1 (Oregon) and europe-west4 (Netherlands) regions, which were already available for training, are now available for batch prediction.

Read about pricing for batch prediction in these regions.

AI Platform Training

The us-west2 (Los Angeles), us-east4 (N. Virginia), and europe-north1 (Finland) regions are now available for training. You can use NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs for training in us-west2 and us-east4.

Read about pricing for training in these regions, including pricing for accelerators.

September 16, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

The What-If Tool can be used to inspect models deployed on AI Platform Prediction, and to compare two models. Learn how to use the What-If Tool with AI Platform Prediction.

September 12, 2019

Notebooks

You can now use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect data on the boot disks of your AI Platform Notebooks VM instances. CMEK in AI Platform Notebooks is generally available. For more information, see Using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

September 09, 2019

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 1.14 now supports training with TPUs using TensorFlow 1.14.

Notebooks

AI Platform Notebooks now provides more ways for you to customize your network settings, encrypt your notebook content, and grant access to your notebook instance. These options are available when you create a notebook.

Now you can implement AI Platform Notebooks using custom containers. Use a Deep Learning Containers image or create a derivative container of your own, then create a new notebook instance using your custom container.

September 06, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

When you deploy a model version to AI Platform Prediction, you can now configure AI Platform Prediction to log a sample of online prediction requests received by the model together with the responses it sends to these requests. AI Platform Prediction saves these request-response pairs to BigQuery. This feature is in beta.

Learn how to how to enable request-response logging and read about the configuration options for this type of logging.

August 28, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

The documentation for AI Platform Notebooks has moved to a new location.

AI Platform Training

Training with custom containers is now generally available.

Using Compute Engine machine types for your training configuration is now generally available.

NVIDIA Tesla P4 and NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs are now generally available for training. Read about using GPUs for training and learn about GPU pricing.

The documentation for AI Platform Notebooks has moved to a new location.

August 26, 2019

AI Platform Training

AI Platform Training now supports using Cloud TPU devices with TPU v3 configurations to accelerate your training jobs. TPU v3 accelerators for AI Platform Training are available in beta.

Learn more about how to configure your training job to use TPU v3 accelerators and read about TPU v3 pricing.

Deep Learning VM Images

M34 release

JupyterLab upgraded to 1.0 on all images.

PyTorch upgraded to 1.2.

August 22, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

Continuous evaluation for AI Platform Prediction is now available in beta. When you create a continuous evaluation job, AI Platform Data Labeling Service assigns human reviewers to provide ground truth labels for a portion of your model version's online predictions; alternatively, you can provide your own ground truth labels. Then Data Labeling Service compares these labels to your model version's predictions to calculate daily evaluation metrics.

Learn more about continuous evaluation.

August 16, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform runtime versions 1.13 and 1.14 now include numpy 1.16.4 instead of numpy 1.16.0. View the runtime version list for the full list of packages included in runtime versions 1.13 and 1.14.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform runtime versions 1.13 and 1.14 now include numpy 1.16.4 instead of numpy 1.16.0. View the runtime version list for the full list of packages included in runtime versions 1.13 and 1.14.

August 01, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

The AI Platform Prediction Training and Prediction documentation has been reorganized. Previously, documentation for using AI Platform Prediction with specific machine learning frameworks was separated into sections. You can now navigate to all Training and Prediction documentation from the AI Platform documentation home page.

AI Platform Training

The AI Platform Training Training and Prediction documentation has been reorganized. Previously, documentation for using AI Platform Training with specific machine learning frameworks was separated into sections. You can now navigate to all Training and Prediction documentation from the AI Platform documentation home page.

July 19, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform runtime version 1.14 is now available for prediction. This version supports TensorFlow 1.14.0 and includes other packages as listed in the runtime version list.

AI Platform runtime version 1.12 now supports TensorFlow 1.12.3. View the runtime version list for the full list of packages included in runtime version 1.12.

AI Platform Training

AI Platform runtime version 1.14 is now available for training. This version supports TensorFlow 1.14.0 and includes other packages as listed in the runtime version list.

Training with TPUs is not supported in runtime version 1.14 at this time.

AI Platform runtime version 1.12 now supports TensorFlow 1.12.3. View the runtime version list for the full list of packages included in runtime version 1.12.

July 17, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

The prediction input format for the following built-in algorithms has changed:

Instead of a raw string, make sure to format each instance as a JSON with a "csv_row" key and "key" key. This "key" is useful for doing batch predictions using AI Platform Prediction. For online predictions, you can pass in a dummy value to the "key" key in your input JSON request. For example:

{"csv_row": "1, 2, 3, 4, 0, abc", "key" : "dummy-key"}

See the Census Income tutorial for an example.

AI Platform Training

The prediction input format for the following built-in algorithms has changed:

Instead of a raw string, make sure to format each instance as a JSON with a "csv_row" key and "key" key. This "key" is useful for doing batch predictions using AI Platform Training. For online predictions, you can pass in a dummy value to the "key" key in your input JSON request. For example:

{"csv_row": "1, 2, 3, 4, 0, abc", "key" : "dummy-key"}

See the Census Income tutorial for an example.

July 12, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M30 release

R upgraded to version 3.6.

TensorFlow: added support for using Python 3.7.

R Notebooks are no longer dependent on a Conda environment.

Fix for the bug when Nvidia driver is not installed if the user does not have the Google Cloud Storage API enabled.

What-If Tool (witwidget) fixes for TensorFlow 1.14.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Notebooks

R upgraded to version 3.6.

R Notebooks are no longer dependent on a Conda environment.

July 01, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M28 release

What-If Tool (witwidget) added to DLVM.

Fixed TensorFlow 1.14 issues.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

June 24, 2019

Deep Learning Containers

AI Platform Deep Learning Containers is now available in beta. AI Platform Deep Learning Containers lets you quickly prototype with a portable and consistent environment for developing, testing, and deploying your AI applications.

Visit the AI Platform Deep Learning Containers overview and the guide to getting started with a local deep learning container.

June 20, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M27.1 release updates

TensorFlow upgraded to: 1.14.0.

TensorFlow 2.0 upgraded to: Beta 1.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

June 19, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

The asia-southeast1 (Singapore) region is now available for batch prediction.

AI Platform Training

The asia-southeast1 (Singapore) region is now available for training. You can use P4 or T4 GPUs for training in the region. Read about pricing for training in asia-southeast1, including pricing for accelerators.

June 18, 2019

AI Platform Training

Runtime version 1.13 now supports training with TPUs using TensorFlow 1.13.

Support for training with TPUs in runtime version 1.11 ended on June 6, 2019.

June 17, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M27 release

New ML framework added: CNTK 2.7 from Microsoft.

New ML framework added: Caffe 1.0 BVLC from UC Berkeley.

Updated TensorFlow 2.0 Beta0.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

June 12, 2019

AI Platform Training

You can now view monitoring data for training jobs directly within the AI Platform Training Job Details page in the Cloud Console. The following charts are available:

CPU, GPU, and memory utilization, broken down by master, worker, and parameter servers.
Network usage: the rate per second of bytes sent and received.

Learn more about how to monitor resource utilization for your training jobs.

There are new options for filtering jobs within the AI Platform Training Jobs page in the Cloud Console. You can filter jobs by Type and by whether or not the job used HyperTune.

Learn more about how to filter your training jobs.

You can now view and sort hyperparameter tuning trials within the AI Platform Training Job Details page in the Cloud Console. If your training job uses hyperparameter tuning, your Job Details page includes a HyperTune trials table, where you can view metrics such as RMSE, learning rate, and training steps. You can also access logs for each trial. This table makes it easier to compare individual trials.

Learn more about how to view your hyperparameter tuning trials.

June 05, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

You can now specify a service account for your model version to use when you deploy a custom prediction routine to AI Platform Prediction. This feature is in beta.

June 03, 2019

AI Platform Training

You can now create AI Platform Notebooks instances with R and core R packages installed. Learn how to install R dependencies, and read guides for using R with BigQuery in AI Platform Notebooks and using R and Python in the same notebook.

Notebooks

May 29, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M26 release

RAPIDS updated to 0.7.

Faster driver installation time for common TensorFlow and PyTorch images.

You can now use Deep Learning VMs without a public IP address if you have enabled Google Private Access.

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

May 03, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform runtime version 1.12 now supports TensorFlow 1.12.2. View the runtime version list for the full list of packages included in runtime version 1.12.

AI Platform Training

T4 GPUs are now in beta for AI Platform Training. For more information, see the guides to using GPUs, their regional availability, and their pricing.

AI Platform runtime version 1.12 now supports TensorFlow 1.12.2. View the runtime version list for the full list of packages included in runtime version 1.12.

Deep Learning VM Images

M25 release

New image added: CUDA 10.1.

PyTorch upgraded to 1.1.0.

fastai upgraded to 1.0.52.

MXNet upgraded to 1.4.0 (and now based on CUDA 10.0 images).

Chainer upgraded to 5.4.0.

April 26, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M24 release

We now support two authorization modes in the new release: single user mode and service account mode3.

rpy2 is now pre-installed in the R image.

A plugin for editing metadata of cells is now pre-installed.

jupyterlab-celltags JupyterLab extension is now pre-installed.

Fixed bug with sudo (now you can use sudo from the JupyterLab terminal).

Downloading files from JupyterLab file browser is now working.

April 25, 2019

AI Platform Prediction

AI Platform Prediction now supports custom prediction routines in beta. Custom prediction routines let you provide AI Platform Prediction with custom code to use when it serves online predictions from your deployed model. This can be useful for preprocessing prediction input, postprocessing your model's predictions, and more.

Work through a tutorial on deploying a custom prediction routine with Keras or one on deploying a custom prediction routine with scikit-learn.

AI Platform Prediction now supports custom transformers for scikit-learn pipelines in beta. This lets you provide AI Platform Prediction with custom code to use during online prediction. Your deployed scikit-learn pipeline uses this code when it serves predictions.

Work through a tutorial on training and deploying a custom scikit-learn pipeline.

AI Platform Prediction now supports logging of your prediction nodes' stderr and stdout streams to Stackdriver logging during online prediction. Stream logging is in beta. You can enable this type of logging in addition to—or in place of—the access logging that was already available. It can be useful for understanding how your deployment handles prediction requests.

April 10, 2019

AI Platform Data Labeling Service

AI Platform Data Labeling Service Beta has been released.

March 15, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M22 release

Tensorflow upgraded to version 1.13.

Fairing now preinstalled.

cookiecutter and seaborn now preinstalled.

More descriptive serial logs to help customers debug common issues.

Misc bug fixes.

Due to incompatibilities between Tensorflow 1.13 (which requires Numpy 1.16.2 or greater) and the latest Intel optimized version of Numpy (which is 1.15) we are not using the intel optimized versions of Numpy and Scipy for this release.

March 01, 2019

Notebooks

AI Platform Notebooks is now available in beta. AI Platform Notebooks enables you to create and manage virtual machine (VM) instances that are pre-packaged with JupyterLab and a suite of deep learning software.

Visit the AI Platform Notebooks overview and the guide to creating a new notebook instance to learn more.

February 21, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M20 release

TensorFlow and Pytorch GPU images switch between CPU-only/GPU-enabled binaries at startup depending on whether GPUs are attached.

SSH is not disabled during NVIDIA driver installation on GPU images.

Due to incompatibilities between the latest kernel update (Debian 9.8) and Docker, we have put a hold on the kernel updates for this release (that is, apt-mark hold linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64). If you require the latest kernel, you can run sudo apt-mark unhold linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64 && sudo apt upgrade, but we cannot guarantee that Docker or our direct JupyterLab link from Marketplace will function correctly if you force the upgrade.

January 29, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M19 release

New TensorFlow 2.0 (experimental) flavor is added.

New experimental ability to use Deep Learning VMs with special Web proxy, instead of SSHing to the VM.

January 14, 2019

Deep Learning VM Images

M16 release

New MXNet 1.3 (experimental) flavor is added.

December 19, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

General Availability

Launched the new 1.0 version of AI Platform Deep Learning VM Image.

M15 release

BigQuery magic plugin now preloaded all the time.

Jupyter SQL integration now pre-installed and SQL plugin now preloaded.

TensorFlow images now include bazel pre-installed.

Python Dataproc client now pre-installed on all our images.

fastai updated to the latest version 1.0.38.

December 10, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M14 release

Fixed bug that was resulting in a broken Git UI in some cases.

Fast.Ai updated to 1.0.36.

December 05, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M13 release

Integrates fix for speed regression in linear models when using TensorFlow with Intel® MKL DNN.

Adds Git-Jupyter integration.

November 20, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M12 release

Chainer is now upgraded to 5.0.0 (and CuPy to 5.0.0).

CuDNN updated to 7.4.

TensorRT5 updated to GA.

XGBoost updated to 0.81.

Images now have papermill pre-installed.

Ability to change Jupyter UI that is running on the port 8080, currently supported: Lab and Notebook.

November 13, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M11.1 release

Fixed an issue where users were locked out of apt after startup due to a package needing configuration. If you are using an M11 image and are experiencing issues with apt, please either recreate your VM or run sudo dpkg --configure -a to clear the lock.

November 08, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M11 release

All GPU images install NVIDIA driver 410.72.

TensorFlow updated to v1.12.0.

PyTorch 0.4 image now uses conda for package management.

October 23, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M10 release

PyTorch 1.0 updated to the latest build as of October 23.

fastai updated to 1.0.12.

fastai course materials are now available at $HOME/tutorials/fastai/.

Chainer UI updated to 0.6.0.

Chainer MN updated to 1.3.1.

Fixed a bug that was causing Intel packages to be overwritten.

October 10, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M9 release

Intel Optimized Python packages are installed in all distributions:

NumPy
SciPy
scikit-learn
TensorFlow (when applicable)

PyTorch 1.0 (Experimental) images include support for [conda](https://conda.io/) and [fastai](http://fast.ai/).

Chainer updated from v4.4.0 to v4.5.0.

September 27, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M8 release

New XGBoost images:

xgboost-<var>VERSION</var>-cu92-experimental
xgboost-<var>VERSION</var>-cpu-experimental

New CUDA 10.0 image (common-cu100) with the following NVIDIA stack in it:

CuDNN 7.3
NCCL 2.3.4
Driver 410.48
TensorRT 5

TensorFlow updated from v1.10.1 to v1.11.0.

TensorFlow now compiled with CUDA 10.0 and CuDNN 7.3.

Common CUDA 9.2 image now has latest NCCL 2.3.4

Common CUDA 9.0 image now has:

latest NCCL 2.3.4
latest CuDNN 7.3
TensorRT 5.0.0

Following packages are now pre-installed on the images:

htop
protobuf-compiler
tree

After SSHing to the instance you now will see the exact revision of the image in the header.

September 18, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M7.1 release

Introducing new experimental images with PyTorch 1.0RC. New image families are:

pytorch-1-0-cu92-experimental
pytorch-1-0-cpu-experimental

September 12, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M7 release

Chainer updated from v4.3.0 to v4.4.0.

Better integration with BigQuery.

Pillow has been replaced with the faster Pillow-SIMD package.

minikube is now pre-installed.

New simplified image families introduced:

tf-latest-gpu
pytorch-latest-gpu
chainer-latest-gpu-experimental

Jupyter now running on behalf of its own user (not root).

August 30, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M6 release

Introducing experimental images: these images bring new frameworks for you to try out, but they come with no guarantees of future support. Current experimental images:

Chainer (4.3)

All images now have kubectl installed.

TensorFlow updated from v1.10.0 to v1.10.1.

August 14, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M5 release

All images now have Docker and/or NVIDIA Docker pre-installed.

TensorFlow and PyTorch images now include pre-baked tutorials.

GPU flavors of TensorFlow and PyTorch images now swap binaries to the CPU optimized binaries during the first boot if the instance does not have a GPU.

July 31, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M4 release

Includes Tensorfow Serving: model server binary at /usr/local/bin/tensorflow_model_server and tensorflow-serving-api preinstalled.

Integration with Colab: default JupyterLab instance can be connected as a Colab backend.

Upgraded to support CUDA 9.2 (note this changes the pytorch family name).

Fixed an issue with CUDA linking in the build process, binaries up to 10% faster now.

July 17, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M3 release

New common image with CUDA 9.0 has been introduced.

The following changes are included in this release:

All images now include OpenMPI.
TensorFlow GPU images now include Horovod.
CUDA 9.2 stack now includes latest NCCL 2.2.13.

Bug that was preventing Jupyter Notebook from working correctly has been resolved.

July 11, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

M2 release

TensorFlow updated to version 1.9.0.

New public Google Group for users: google-dl-platform

July 02, 2018

Deep Learning VM Images

Beta launch

AI Platform Deep Learning VM Image is available as a beta release.