Vertex AI release notes

This page documents production updates to Vertex AI. 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 07, 2023

Vertex AI

PaLM Text and Embeddings APIs, and Generative AI Studio

The Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available (GA). With this feature launch, you can leverage the PaLM API to generate AI models that you can test, tune, and deploy in your AI-powered applications. With the GA of these features, you will incur usage costs if you use the text-bison and textembedding-gecko PaLM APIs. To learn about pricing, see the Vertex AI pricing page.

Features and models in this release include:

  • PaLM 2 for Text: text-bison
  • Embedding for Text: textembedding-gecko
  • Generative AI Studio for Language

Vertex AI Model Garden

The Vertex AI Model Garden is now generally available (GA). The Model Garden is a platform that helps you discover, test, customize, and deploy Vertex AI and select OSS models. These models range from tunable to task-specific - all available on the Model Garden page in the Google Cloud console.

To get started, see Explore AI models and APIs in Model Garden.

Vertex AI Codey APIs

The Vertex AI Codey APIs are now in Preview. With the Codey API, code generation, code completion, and code chat APIs can be used from any Google Cloud project without allowlisting. The APIs can be accessed from the us-central1 region. The Codey APIs can be used in the Generative AI studio or programmatically in REST commands.

To get started, see the Code models overview.

June 01, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex Prediction

You can now specify a multi-region BigQuery table as the input or output to a batch prediction request.

May 18, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex Prediction

You can now co-host models on the same VM from the Google Cloud Console. Previously, this capability was available only from the REST API. For more information, see Share resources across deployments.

May 16, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI custom training now supports deep integration with Vertex AI Experiments. You can submit training jobs with autologging enabled to automatically log parameters and model performance metrics. For more information, see Run training job with experiment tracking

The scheduler API for Vertex AI Pipelines is now available in Preview. You can schedule recurring pipeline runs in Vertex AI by specifying a frequency, start time (optional), and end time (optional). For more information, see Schedule a pipeline run with scheduler API.

May 10, 2023

Vertex AI

Generative AI Support for Vertex AI

Generative AI Support for Vertex AI is now available in Preview. With this feature launch, you can leverage the Vertex AI PaLM API to generate AI models that you can test, tune, and deploy in your AI-powered applications.

Features and models in this release include:

  • PaLM 2 for Text: text-bison@001
  • PaLM 2 for Chat: chat-bison@001
  • Embedding for Text: textembedding-gecko@001
  • Generative AI Studio for Language
  • Tuning for PaLM 2
  • Vertex AI SDK v1.25, which includes new features such as TextGenerationModel(text-bison@001), ChatModel(chat-bison@001), TextEmbeddingModel(textembedding-gecko@001)

You can interact with the generative AI features on Vertex AI by using Generative AI Studio in the Google Cloud console, the Vertex AI API, and the Vertex AI SDK for Python.

Vertex AI Model Garden

The Vertex AI Model Garden is now available in Preview. The Model Garden is a platform that helps you discover, test, customize, and deploy Vertex AI and select OSS models. These models range from tunable to task-specific - all available on the Model Garden page in the Google Cloud console.

May 09, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now use G2 accelerator-optimized machine types to serve predictions. Each G2 machine has a fixed number of NVIDIA L4 GPUs attached.

May 04, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M108 release

The M108 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Miscellaneous software updates.

April 14, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now update some scaling and container logging configuration settings on a DeployedModel without undeploying and redeploying it to an endpoint.

For more information, see update the scaling configuration and container logging.

April 13, 2023

Vertex AI

The Timeseries Insights API is now generally available (GA). With the Timeseries Insights API, you can forecast and detect anomalies over billions of events in real time. For more information, see Timeseries Insights.

Vertex AI Workbench

M107 release

The M107 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a bug that displayed the wrong version of the JupyterLab user interface.
  • Fixed a bug where a cron job for the diagnostic tool was added at every restart.
  • Miscellaneous software updates.

April 06, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M106 release

The M106 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Rolled back a previous change in which Jupyter dependencies were located in a separate Conda environment.
  • Fixed a bug in which kernels used by notebooks did not contain the specified machine learning frameworks.
  • Miscellaneous software updates.

April 04, 2023

Vertex AI

The Vertex AI Matching Engine service now offers Preview support for deploying an index to a public endpoint. For information about how to get started, see Matching Engine Setup.

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now view logs for Vertex AI Batch Prediction jobs in Cloud Logging.

Vertex AI Pipelines is now integrated with Cloud Asset Inventory service. You can use Cloud Asset Inventory to search, export, monitor, and analyze pipeline resources and metadata, and also view the resource history.

April 03, 2023

Vertex AI

The Vertex AI Model Registry now offers Preview support for model copy between regions. For information about how to copy your model between regions, see Copy models in Model Registry.

March 31, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M105 release

The M105 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

  • The following user-managed notebooks images are now available with Python 3.10 on Debian 11:

    • TensorFlow 2.11 CPU (tf-2-11-cpu-notebooks-debian-11-py310)
    • TensorFlow 2.11 GPU with Cuda 11.3 (tf-2-11-cu113-notebooks-debian-11-py310)
    • PyTorch 1.13 with Cuda 11.3 (pytorch-1-13-cu113-notebooks-debian-11-py310)
    • Base CPU (common-cpu-notebooks-debian-11-py310)
    • Base GPU with Cuda 11.3 (common-cu113-notebooks-debian11-py310)

  • The following user-managed notebooks images are now available with Python 3.9 on Debian 11:

    • TensorFlow 2.6 CPU (tf-2-6-cpu-notebooks-debian-11-py39)
    • TensorFlow 2.6 GPU with Cuda 11.3 (tf-2-6-cu113-notebooks-debian-11-py39)

  • Jupyter-related libraries have been moved to a different Conda environment, separate from the one containing machine learning frameworks and base software libraries.

March 28, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Pipelines cost showback with billing labels is now generally available (GA). You can now use billing labels to review the cost of a pipeline run, along with the cost of individual resources generated from Google Cloud Pipeline Components in the pipeline run. For more information, see Understand pipeline run costs.

March 27, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M105 release

The M105 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed an issue wherein a runtime with idle shutdown enabled doesn't detect activity and shuts down.
  • Fixed an issue wherein the runtime data disk runs out of space and prevents access.
  • Fixed an issue wherein end user credentials are not preserved after shutdown.
  • Changed Health Agent logging levels from DEBUG to INFO.

March 21, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI supports running Explainable AI on certain types of BQML models when they are added to the Vertex AI Model Registry (GA). To learn more, see Explainable AI for BigQuery ML models.

Vertex AI Feature Store

The ability to delete feature values from an entity type is now generally available (GA). The following features are available:

Links to additional resources:

March 20, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now use N2, N2D, C2, and C2D machine types to serve predictions.

March 16, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M104 release

The M104 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a regression in which jupyter-user metadata was ignored.
  • Enabled access to the Jupyter Gateway Client configuration by using the notebook-enable-gateway-client and gateway-client-url metadata tags.
  • Added the following packages:
    • google-cloud-artifact-registry
    • google-cloud-bigquery-storage
    • google-cloud-language
    • keyring
    • keyrings.google-artifactregistry-auth
  • Fixed a bug in which curl could not find the right SSL certificate path by default.

TensorFlow Enterprise 2.1 has reached the end of its support period. See Version details.

March 03, 2023

Vertex AI

Pre-built containers to perform custom training with TensorFlow 2.11, PyTorch 1.12, or PyTorch 1.13 are now generally available (GA).

February 28, 2023

Vertex AI

A new custom training overview page is available. The new overview page covers the following topics:

  • What is custom training?
  • Benefits of custom training on Vertex AI.
  • How custom training works.
  • Custom training workflow.

February 21, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M104 update

This update of the M104 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a bug where local and remote kernels are not displayed. This happens when remote kernels are not accessible.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

February 14, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

Pre-built PyTorch containers for serving predictions from PyTorch models is generally available (GA).

Vertex AI Matching Engine now supports Private Service Connect in Preview. To learn how to set up a a Private Service Connect instance, see Using Private Service Connect.

February 13, 2023

Vertex AI

Support for resource-level IAM policies for Vertex AI featurestore and entityType resources is generally available (GA). For more information, see Control access to resources.

February 10, 2023

Vertex AI

When performing distributed training, Vertex AI properly sets the primary replica in CLUSTER_SPEC as workerpool0 instead of chief. For details, see Format CLUSTER_SPEC.

February 09, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M104 release

The M104 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Added a fix for a security vulnerability in single-user managed notebooks instances.
  • Made enhancements to the network selection user experience in the managed notebooks executor.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

February 06, 2023

Vertex AI

The Vertex AI Pipelines Template Gallery is now available in Preview. You can bootstrap your MLOps workflows with Google-authored pipeline and component templates. For more information, see Use a prebuilt template from the Template Gallery.

January 30, 2023

Vertex AI Workbench

M103 release

The M103 release of Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a bug in which a warning tells the user to run jupyter lab build when creating a new instance.
  • Upgraded PyTorch to 1.13.1.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

January 26, 2023

Vertex AI

Tabular Workflow for End-to-End AutoML is generally available (GA). For documentation, refer to Tabular Workflow for End-to-End AutoML.

January 18, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Explainability

When uploading TensorFlow 2 models, the ExplanationMetadata field is now optional, making it easier to configure your model for explainability. For more information, see Import a model with an explanationSpec field.

January 11, 2023

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Matching Engine is available in the following regions:

  • us-west2 – (Los Angeles)
  • us-west3 – (Salt Lake City)
  • northamerica-northeast1 – (Montréal)
  • northamerica-northeast2 – (Toronto)
  • europe-central2 – (Warsaw)
  • europe-west2 – (London)
  • europe-west3 – (Frankfurt)
  • europe-west6 – (Zurich)
  • asia-east1 – (Taiwan)
  • Asia-east2 – (Hong Kong)
  • me-west1 – (Tel aviv)

To see all of the available locations for Matching Engine, see the Vertex AI Locations page.

December 20, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI TensorFlow Profiler

Vertex AI TensorFlow Profiler is generally available GA. You can use TensorFlow Profiler to debug model training performance for your custom training jobs.

For details, see Profile model training performance using Profiler.

Vertex AI Matching Engine

Vertex AI Matching Engine now offers General Availability support for updating your indices using Streaming Update, which is real-time indexing for the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) service.

Vertex AI Feature Store streaming ingestion is now generally available (GA).

You can now override the default data retention limit of 4000 days for the online store and the offline store in Vertex AI Feature Store.

  • You can set the data retention limit for the online store at the featurestore level.
  • You can set the data retention limit for the offline store at the entity type level.

December 15, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M102 release

The M102 release of Vertex AI Workbench includes the following:

  • TensorFlow 2.11 is now available.
  • PyTorch 1.13 is now available.
  • Regular security patches and package upgrades.

December 09, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M101 release

The M101 release of Vertex AI Workbench includes the following:

  • TensorFlow patch version upgrades:
    • From 2.8.3 to 2.8.4.
    • From 2.9.2 to 2.9.3.
    • From 2.10.0 to 2.10.1.
  • TensorFlow 1.15 on Vertex AI Workbench is now deprecated.
  • Added *.notebooks.cloud.google.com as part of the domains required for users to access Notebooks API. Removed *.datalab.cloud.google.com.
  • Regular security patches and package upgrades.

December 05, 2022

Vertex AI

The Pipeline Templates feature is now generally available (GA). The Your Templates tab is supported by Artifact Registry and allows you to publish and curate pipeline and component templatess. For documentation, refer to Create, upload, and use a pipeline template.

November 30, 2022

Vertex AI

AutoML image model updates

AutoML image classification and object detection now support a higher-accuracy model type. This model is available in Preview.

For information about how to train a model using the higher accuracy model type, see Begin AutoML model training.

Batch prediction is currently not supported for this model type.

Cloud Logging for Vertex AI Pipelines is now generally available (GA). For more information, see View pipeline job logs.

November 18, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now perform some simple filtering and transformation on the batch input in your BatchPredictionJob requests without having to write any code in the prediction container. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Filter and transform input data.

November 17, 2022

Vertex AI

The Vertex AI Pipelines email notification component is now generally available (GA). This component enables you to configure your pipeline to send up to three emails upon success or failure of a pipeline run. For more information, see Configure email notifications and the Email notification component.

November 16, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI has added support for the following regions:

  • us-west3 (Salt Lake City)
  • europe-central2 (Warsaw)
  • asia-southeast2 (Jakarta)
  • me-west1 (Tel aviv)

Some features of Vertex AI are not supported in these regions. Check feature availability for all regions on the Vertex AI Locations page.

November 10, 2022

Vertex AI

AutoML Image Classification Error Analysis

Error analysis allows you to examine error cases after training a model from within the model evaluation page. This feature is available in Preview.

For each image you can inspect similar images from the training set to help identify the following:

  • Label inconsistencies between visually similar images
  • Outliers if a test sample has no visually similar images in the training set

After fixing any data issues, you can retrain the model to improve model performance.

November 09, 2022

Vertex AI

Feature Transform Engine is available in Preview. For documentation, refer to Feature engineering.

November 08, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M100 release

The M100 release of Vertex AI Workbench includes the following:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented an instance with a GPU from starting.
  • Regular package updates.
  • Miscellaneous bug and display fixes.

Fixed a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. Previous versions of managed notebooks and user-managed notebooks instances still contain the vulnerability. It is recommended that you migrate your data to a new instance.

November 04, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now use A2 machine types to serve predictions.

Custom training on Vertex AI now supports NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs on a2-ultragpu-1g/2g/4g/8g machines. For details, see Configure compute resources for custom training.

November 03, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

Custom prediction routines (CPR) are now Generally Available. CPR lets you easily build custom containers for prediction with pre/post processing support.

October 27, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Prediction

You can now use E2 machine types to serve predictions.

October 25, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

The v1beta1 version of the Notebooks API is scheduled for removal no earlier than January 16, 2023. After this date, you must use Notebooks API v1 to manage Vertex AI Workbench resources.

October 18, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M98 release

The M98 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Upgraded Go from 1.16.5 to 1.19.2.
  • Upgraded R from 4.1 to 4.2.
  • Upgraded JupyterLab from 3.2 to 3.4.
  • Miscellaneous bug and display fixes.
  • Added a fix for the BigQuery SQL editor to run queries correctly in non-US locations.
  • Regular package updates.

Learn more about managed notebooks versions.

October 12, 2022

Vertex AI

Tabular Workflow for TabNet Training is available in Preview. For documentation, refer to Tabular Workflows for TabNet Training.

Tabular Workflow for Wide & Deep Training is available in Preview. For documentation, refer to Tabular Workflow for Wide & Deep Training.

October 11, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Feature Store streaming ingestion is available in Preview.

October 10, 2022

Vertex AI

The Vertex AI Model Registry is generally available (GA). Vertex AI Model Registry is a searchable repository where you can manage the lifecycle of your ML models. From the Vertex AI Model Registry, you can better organize your models, train new versions, and deploy directly to endpoints.

The Vertex AI Model Registry and BigQuery ML integration is generally available (GA). With this integration, BigQuery ML models can be managed alongside other ML models in Vertex AI to easily version, evaluate, and deploy for prediction.

October 06, 2022

Vertex AI

Incrementally train an AutoML model

You can now incrementally train an AutoML image classification or object detection model by selecting a previously trained model. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Train an AutoML image classification model.

October 05, 2022

Vertex AI

October 04, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI model evaluation is now available in Preview. Model evaluation provides model evaluation metrics, such as precision and recall, to help you determine the performance of your models.

September 26, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Model Monitoring

Vertex AI Model Monitoring now offers Preview support for batch prediction jobs. For more details, see Vertex AI Model Monitoring for batch predictions.

Vertex AI Feature Store

Feature value monitoring is now generally available (GA).

September 22, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Matching Engine

Vertex AI Matching Engine now offers Preview support for updating your indices using Streaming Update, which is real-time indexing for the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) service.

September 20, 2022

Vertex AI

The option to configure pipeline run caching (enable_caching) is now available in the Cloud console.

Vertex AI Workbench

M96 release

The M96 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a problem where users were not able to save large Notebooks.
  • Fixed a display issue when using JupyterLab's simple interface.
  • Improved timeout behavior switch hardware operations.
  • Improved error messaging when a service account cannot access the Runtime.
  • Security fixes.
  • Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

Learn more about managed notebooks versions.

Fixed a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. Previous versions of managed notebooks and user-managed notebooks instances still contain the vulnerability. It is recommended that you migrate your data to a new instance.

September 14, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now limit the number of concurrent or parallel task runs in a pipeline run using dsl.ParallelFor. For more information, see the Kubeflow Pipelines SDK Documentation.

The performance of the ListPipelineJobs API has been improved via a new readMask that lets you filter out large fields. To leverage this in the Python SDK, use the new enable_simple_view.

August 17, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M95 release

The M95 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a bug where users were regularly getting a 502 error when trying to access JupyterLab.
  • Fixed a bug where opening an instance in Single User mode slowed the start of an instance.
  • Fixed a bug where a managed notebooks instance was not starting after adding a GPU.
  • Fixed bugs on the Serverless Spark form input.
  • Improved the ActivityLog refresh after Serverless Spark creation.
  • Fixed a bug related to the display of materialized views in BigQuery.
  • Refreshed the JupyterLab interface with an improved Google-specific theme.
  • Fixed a bug related to viewing Cloud Storage buckets and folders with large numbers of objects.
  • Regular package refreshment and bug fixes.

Learn more about managed notebooks versions.

August 12, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex Explainable AI

Vertex Explainable AI now offers Preview support for example-based explanations. For more information, see Configure example-based explanations for custom training.

August 01, 2022

Vertex AI

TensorFlow Profiler integration: Debug model training performance for your custom training jobs. For details, see Profile model training performance using Profiler.

July 29, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI now offers Preview support for Custom prediction routines (CPR). CPR lets you easily build custom containers for prediction with pre/post processing support.

July 18, 2022

Vertex AI

NFS support for custom training is GA. For details, see Mount an NFS share for custom training.

July 14, 2022

Vertex AI

The Pipeline Templates feature is available in Preview. For documentation, refer to Create, upload, and use a pipeline template.

The features supported by pipeline templates include the following:

  • Create a template registry using Artifact Registry (AR).
  • Compile and publish a pipeline template.
  • Create a pipeline run using the template and filter the runs.
  • Manage (create, update, or delete) the pipeline template resources.

July 12, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with TensorFlow 2.9

July 11, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Pipelines now lets you configure task-level retries. You can set the number of times a task is retried before it fails. For more information about this option, see the Kubeflow Pipelines SDK Documentation.

July 06, 2022

Vertex AI

Tabular Workflows is available in Preview. For documentation, refer to Tabular Workflows on Vertex AI.

End-to-End AutoML workflow is available in Public Preview. For documentation, refer to End-to-End AutoML.

June 30, 2022

Vertex AI

Feature: Vertex AI Experiments is generally available (GA). Vertex AI Experiments helps users track and compare multiple experiment runs and analyze key model metrics.

Features supported by Experiments include:

  • Vary and track parameters and metrics.
  • Compare parameters, metrics, and artifacts between pipeline runs.
  • Track steps and artifacts to capture the lineage of experiments.
  • Compare vertex pipelines against Notebook experiments.

June 28, 2022

Vertex AI

June 17, 2022

Vertex AI

Support for IAM resource-level policies for Vertex AI featurestore and entityType resources is available in Preview.

May 27, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M93 release

The M93 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented kernels from shutting down properly in Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks.

Learn more about managed notebooks versions.

May 24, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now configure the failure policy for a pipeline run.

May 18, 2022

Vertex AI

The ability to configure Vertex AI private endpoints is now general available (GA). Vertex AI private endpoints provide a low-latency, secure connection to the Vertex AI online prediction service. You can configure Vertex AI private endpoints by using VPC Network Peering. For more information, see Use private endpoints for online prediction.

May 12, 2022

Vertex AI Workbench

M91 release

The M91 release of Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks includes the following:

  • Log streaming to the consumer project via Logs Viewer is now supported.
  • Added the net-tools package.
  • Regular package refreshments and bug fixes.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Spark server networking errors when using Dataproc Serverless Spark and VPC Peering.

Learn more about managed notebooks versions.

April 26, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now train your custom models using Cloud TPU Architecture (TPU VMs).

April 21, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with PyTorch 1.11.

April 06, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Model Registry is available in Preview. Vertex AI Model Registry is a searchable repository where you can manage the lifecycle of your ML models. From the Vertex AI Model Registry, you can better organize your models, train new versions, and deploy directly to endpoints.

Vertex AI Workbench

Vertex AI Workbench is generally available (GA). Vertex AI Workbench is a single notebook surface for all your data science needs that lets you access BigQuery data and Cloud Storage from within JupyterLab, execute notebook code in Vertex AI custom training and Spark, use custom containers, manage costs with idle timeout, and secure your instances with VPC Service Controls and customer managed encryption keys (CMEK).

Features supported include:

The Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks executor is generally available (GA). Use the executor to run notebook files on a schedule or as a one-time execution. You can use parameters in your execution to make specific changes to each run. For example, you might specify a different dataset to use, change the learning rate on your model, or change the version of the model. For more information, see Run notebook files with the executor.

March 07, 2022

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Feature Store online store autoscaling is available in Preview. The online store nodes automatically scale to balance performance and cost with different traffic patterns. The offline store already scales automatically.

You can now mount Network File System (NFS) shares to access remote files when you run a custom training job. For more information, see Mount an NFS share for custom training.

This feature is in Preview.

Google Cloud Pipeline Components SDK v1.0 is now generally available.

February 16, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with TensorFlow 2.8.

February 10, 2022

Vertex AI

For Vertex AI featurestore resources, the online store is optional. You can set the number of online nodes to 0. For more information, see Manage featurestores.

January 04, 2022

Vertex AI

You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with PyTorch 1.10.

December 23, 2021

Vertex AI

There are now three Vertex AI release note feeds. Add any of the following to your feed reader:

  • For both Vertex AI and Vertex AI Workbench: https://cloud.google.com/feeds/vertex-ai-product-group-release-notes.xml
  • For Vertex AI only: https://cloud.google.com/feeds/vertex-ai-release-notes.xml
  • For Vertex AI Workbench only: https://cloud.google.com/feeds/aiplatformnotebooks-release-notes.xml

December 02, 2021

Vertex AI

You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with TensorFlow 2.7.

December 01, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex AI TensorBoard is generally available (GA).

November 19, 2021

Vertex AI

The autopackaging feature of the gcloud ai custom-jobs create command is generally available (GA). Autopackaging lets you use a single command to run code on your local computer as a custom training job in Vertex AI.

The gcloud ai customs-jobs local-run command is generally available (GA). You can use this command to containerize and run training code locally.

November 09, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Pipelines is generally available (GA).

November 04, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex Explainable AI Preview support available for AutoML image classification models

Vertex Explainable AI offers Preview support for the following model type:

November 02, 2021

Vertex AI

Using interactive shells to inspect custom training jobs is generally available (GA).

You can use these interactive shells with VPC Service Controls.

October 25, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex ML Metadata is generally available (GA).

October 11, 2021

Vertex AI Workbench

Vertex AI Workbench is now available in Preview. Vertex AI Workbench is a notebook-based development environment for the entire data science workflow.

The Notebooks product and all existing Notebooks instances are now part of Vertex AI Workbench as user-managed notebooks.

October 05, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex Feature Store is generally available (GA).

September 24, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex Matching Engine is generally available (GA).

September 21, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex AI Vizier is generally available (GA).

September 15, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex Explainable AI is generally available (GA).

September 13, 2021

Vertex AI

September 10, 2021

Vertex AI

Vertex Model Monitoring is generally available (GA).

When you perform custom training, you can access Cloud Storage buckets by reading and writing to the local filesystem. This feature, based on Cloud Storage Fuse, is available in Preview.

Vertex AI Workbench

Due to a recent change, the iam.serviceAccounts.actAs permission on the specified service account for the notebook instance is required for users to continue to have access to their notebook instances. The Google internal Inverting Proxy server that provides access to notebook instances now verifies that this permission is present before allowing users access to the JupyterLab URL. The JupyterLab URL this update covers is: *.notebooks.googleusercontent.com This update only applies to notebook instances in Single User mode and verifies that the assigned single user is authorized to execute code inside the notebook instance. Notebook instances running in Service Account or Project Editor mode already perform this verification via the Inverting Proxy server.

August 30, 2021

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You can now use a pre-built container to perform custom training with TensorFlow 2.6 and PyTorch 1.9.

August 24, 2021

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The following tools for creating embeddings to use with Vertex Matching Engine are available in Preview:

  • the Two Tower built-in algorithm
  • the Swivel pipeline template

August 02, 2021

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Vertex Pipelines is available in the following regions:

  • us-east1 (South Carolina)
  • europe-west2 (London)
  • asia-southeast1 (Singapore)

See all the locations where Vertex Pipelines is available.

July 28, 2021

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You can use the Reduction Server algorithm (Preview) to increase throughput and reduce latency during distributed custom training.

July 27, 2021

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July 26, 2021

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If using proxy single-user mode, Notebooks API now verifies if the specified user (proxy-user-mail) has Service Account permissions on the Service Account. This check is performed during instance creation and registration.

July 20, 2021

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Private endpoints for online prediction are now available in preview. After you set up VPC Network Peering with Vertex AI, you can create private endpoints for low-latency online prediction within your private network.

Additionally, the documentation for VPC Network Peering with custom training has moved. The general instructions for setting up VPC Network Peering with Vertex AI are available at the original link, https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/general/vpc-peering. The documentation for custom training is now available here: Using private IP with custom training.

July 19, 2021

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You can now use an interactive shell to inspect your custom training container while it runs. The interactive shell can be helpful for monitoring and debugging training.

This feature is available in preview.

July 14, 2021

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You can now use the gcloud beta ai custom-jobs create command to build a Docker image based on local training code, push the image to Container Registry, and create a CustomJob resource.

July 08, 2021

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You can now containerize and run your training code locally by using the new gcloud beta ai custom-jobs local-run command. This feature is available in preview.

June 25, 2021

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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. Learn about their pricing.

June 18, 2021

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Support for Compute Reservations. Notebooks API allows the use of Compute Reservations during instance creation.

June 11, 2021

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May 18, 2021

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AI Platform (Unified) is now Vertex AI.

Vertex AI has added support for custom model training, custom model batch prediction, custom model online prediction, and a limited number of other services in the following regions:

  • us-west1
  • us-east1
  • us-east4
  • northamerica-northeast1
  • europe-west2
  • europe-west1
  • asia-southeast1
  • asia-northeast1
  • australia-southeast1
  • asia-northeast3

Vertex AI now supports forecasting with time series data for AutoML tabular models, in Preview. You can use forecasting to predict a series of numeric values that extend into the future.

Vertex Pipelines is now available in Preview. Vertex Pipelines helps you to automate, monitor, and govern your ML systems by orchestrating your ML workflow.

Vertex Model Monitoring is now available in Preview. Vertex Model Monitoring enables you to monitor model quality over time.

Vertex Feature Store is now available in Preview. Vertex Feature Store provides a centralized repository for organizing, storing, and serving ML features.

Vertex ML Metadata is now available in Preview. Vertex ML Metadata lets you record the metadata and artifacts produced by your ML system so you can analyze the performance of your ML system.

Vertex Matching Engine is now available in Preview. Vertex Matching Engine enables vector similarity search.

Vertex TensorBoard is now available in Preview. Vertex TensorBoard enables you to track, visualize, and compare ML experiments.

May 03, 2021

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April 27, 2021

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AI Platform Vizier is now available in preview. Vizier is a feature of AI Platform (Unified) that you can use to perform black-box optimization. You can use Vizier to tune hyperparameters or optimize any evaluable system.

April 15, 2021

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The Python client library for AI Platform (Unified) is now called the AI Platform (Unified) SDK. With the release of version 0.7 (Preview), the AI Platform (Unified) SDK provides two levels of support. The high-level aiplatform library is designed to simplify common data science workflows by using wrapper classes and opinionated defaults. The lower-level aiplatform.gapic library remains available for those times when you need more flexibility or control. Learn more.

March 31, 2021

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AI Platform (Unified) is now available in General Availability (GA).

AI Platform (Unified) has added support for the following regions for custom model training, as well as batch and online prediction for custom-trained models:

  • us-west1 (Oregon)
  • us-east1 (South Carolina)
  • us-east4 (N. Virginia)
  • northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal)
  • europe-west2 (London)
  • europe-west1 (Belgium)
  • asia-southeast1 (Singapore)
  • asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
  • australia-southeast1 (Sydney)
  • asia-northeast3 (Seoul)

March 26, 2021

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Cross Project Service Account is supported for user-managed notebooks.

March 15, 2021

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March 04, 2021

Vertex AI Workbench

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

March 02, 2021

Vertex AI

CMEK compliance using the client libraries

You can now use the client libraries to create resources with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK).

For more information on creating a resource with an encryption key using the client libraries, see Using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

March 01, 2021

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The client library for Java now includes enhancements to improve usage of training and prediction features. The client library includes additional types and utility functions for sending training requests, sending prediction requests, and reading prediction results.

To use these enhancements, you must install the latest version of the client library.

February 25, 2021

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AI Platform (Unified) now supports Access Transparency in beta. Google Cloud organizations with certain support packages can use this feature. Learn more about using Access Transparency with AI Platform (Unified).

The client libraries for Node.js and Python now include enhancements to improve usage of training and prediction features. These client libraries include additional types and utility functions for sending training requests, sending prediction requests, and reading prediction results.

To use these enhancements, you must install the latest version of the client libraries.

The predict and explain method calls no longer require the use of a different service endpoint (for example, https://us-central1-prediction-aiplatform.googleapis.com). These methods are now available on the same endpoint as all other methods.

In addition to Docker images hosted on Container Registry, you can now use Docker images hosted on Artifact Registry and Docker Hub for custom container training on AI Platform.

The Docker images for pre-built training containers and pre-built prediction containers are now available on Artifact Registry.

February 01, 2021

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Notebooks Terraform Module supports Notebooks API v1

January 23, 2021

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VPC-SC for Notebooks (now known as user-managed notebooks) is now Generally Available.

Notebooks API supports Shielded VM configuration.

January 19, 2021

Vertex AI

Preview: Select AI Platform (Unified) resources can now be configured to use Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

Currently you can only create resources with a CMEK key in the UI; this functionality is not currently available using the client libraries.

January 11, 2021

Vertex AI

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

If you previously used the default disk type for custom training and want to continue training with the same disk type, make sure to explicitly specify the pd-standard boot disk type when you perform custom training.

January 06, 2021

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December 17, 2020

Vertex AI

AI Platform (Unified) now stores and processes your data only in the region you specify for most features. Learn more.

November 16, 2020

Vertex AI

Preview release

AI Platform (Unified) is now available in Preview.

For more information, see the product documentation.

September 21, 2020

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AI Platform Notebooks (now known as user-managed 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 (now known as user-managed notebooks) is now Generally Available.

Granular IAM permissions for AI Platform Notebooks (now known as user-managed 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)

March 31, 2020

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AI Platform Notebooks (now known as user-managed 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.

February 04, 2020

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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

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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.

September 12, 2019

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

September 09, 2019

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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.

July 12, 2019

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R upgraded to version 3.6.

R Notebooks are no longer dependent on a Conda environment.

June 03, 2019

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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.

March 01, 2019

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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.