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April 18, 2024
Meta's open weight LLama 3 model is available in the Vertex AI Model Garden.
April 11, 2024
Anthropic Claude 3.0 Opus model
The Anthropic Claude 3.0 Opus model is available in Preview. The Claude 3.0 Opus model is an Anthropic partner model that you can use with Vertex AI. It's the most capable of the Anthropic models at performing complex tasks quickly. To learn more, see its model card in Model Garden.
April 09, 2024
New Imagen on Vertex AI image generation model and features
The 006 version of the Imagen 2 image generation model (imagegeneration@006) is now available. This model offers the following additional features:
- Additional aspect ratios (1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16, 16:9)
- Digital watermark (SynthID) enabled by default
- Watermark verification*
- New user-configurable safety features (safety setting, person/face setting)
For more information, see Model versions and Generate images using text prompts.
* The seed field can't be used while digital watermark is enabled.
New Imagen on Vertex AI image editing model and features
The 006 version of the Imagen 2 image editing model (imagegeneration@006) is now available. This model offers the following additional features:
- Inpainting - Add or remove content from a masked area of an image
- Outpainting - Expand a masked area of an image
- Product image editing - Identify and maintain a primary product while changing the background or product position
For more information, see Model versions.
Change in Imagen image generation version 006 (imagegeneration@006) seed field behavior
For the new Imagen image generation model version 006 (imagegeneration@006) the seed field behavior has changed. For the v.006 model a digital watermark is enabled by default for image generation. To be able to use a seed value to get deterministic output you must disable digital watermark generation by setting the following parameter: "addWatermark": false.
For more information, see the Imagen for image generation and editing API reference.
CodeGemma model
The CodeGemma model is available. CodeGemma is a lightweight open model that's part of the Google Gemma model family. CodeGemma is the Gemma model family's code generation and code completion offering. Gemma models are based on Gemini models and intended to be extended by customers.
Grounding Gemini and Grounding with Google Search
The Gemini API now supports Grounding with Google Search in Preview. Currently available for Gemini 1.0 Pro models.
Regional APIs
- Regional APIs are available in 11 new countries for Gemini, Imagen, and embeddings.
- US and EU have machine-learning processing boundaries for the
gemini-1.0-pro-001,gemini-1.0-pro-002,gemini-1.0-pro-vision-001, andimagegeneration@005models.
Generative AI on Vertex AI security control update
Security controls are available for the online prediction feature for Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision.
Gemini 1.5 Pro (Preview)
Gemini 1.5 Pro is available in Preview. Gemini 1.5 Pro is a multimodal model that analyzes text, code, audio, PDF, video, and video with audio.
New text embedding models
The following text embedding models are now in Preview.
text-embedding-preview-0409text-multilingual-embedding-preview-0409
When evaluated using the MTEB benchmarks, these models produce better embeddings compared to previous versions. The new models also offer dynamic embedding sizes, which you can use to output smaller embedding dimensions, with minor performance loss, to save on computing and storage costs.
For details on how to use these models, refer to the public documentation and try out our Colab.
System instructions
System instructions are supported in Preview by the Gemini 1.0 Pro (stable version gemini-1.0-pro-002 only) and Gemini 1.5 Pro (Preview) multimodal models. Use system instructions to guide model behavior based on your specific needs and use cases. For more information, see System instructions examples.
Supervised Tuning for Gemini
Supervised tuning is available for the gemini-1.0-pro-002 model.
Online Evaluation Service
Generative AI evaluation supports online evaluation in addition to pipeline evaluation. The list of supported evaluation metrics has also expanded. See API reference and SDK reference.
Generative AI Knowledge Base
The Jump Start Solution: Generative AI Knowledge Base demonstrates how to build a simple chatbot with business- and domain-specific knowledge.
Text translation
Translate text in Vertex AI Studio is available in Preview.
Gemini 1.0 Pro stable version 002
The 002 version of the Gemini 1.0 Pro multimodal model (gemini-1.0-pro-002) is available. For more information about stable versions of Gemini models, see Gemini model versions and lifecycle.
April 02, 2024
Model Garden supports all Text Generation Inference supported models in HuggingFace:
- Verified deployment settings for about 400 Hugging Face text generation models (including google/gemma-7b-it, meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf, and mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1).
- Other Hugging Face text generation models have unverified deployment settings that are auto generated.
March 29, 2024
The MedLM-large model infrastructure has been upgraded to improve latency and stability. Responses from the model might be slightly different.