Generate content from multimodal data using Generative AI

This sample demonstrates the capability to generate content from a combination of text, image, and video.

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Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Vertex AI quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vertex AI Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vertex AI, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.cloud.vertexai.VertexAI;
import com.google.cloud.vertexai.api.GenerateContentResponse;
import com.google.cloud.vertexai.generativeai.ContentMaker;
import com.google.cloud.vertexai.generativeai.GenerativeModel;
import com.google.cloud.vertexai.generativeai.PartMaker;
import com.google.cloud.vertexai.generativeai.ResponseHandler;

public class Multimodal {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-google-cloud-project-id";
    String location = "us-central1";
    String modelName = "gemini-1.5-flash-001";

    String output = nonStreamingMultimodal(projectId, location, modelName);
    System.out.println(output);
  }

  // Ask a simple question and get the response.
  public static String nonStreamingMultimodal(String projectId, String location, String modelName)
      throws Exception {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests.
    // This client only needs to be created once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    try (VertexAI vertexAI = new VertexAI(projectId, location)) {
      GenerativeModel model = new GenerativeModel(modelName, vertexAI);

      String videoUri = "gs://cloud-samples-data/video/animals.mp4";
      String imgUri = "gs://cloud-samples-data/generative-ai/image/character.jpg";

      // Get the response from the model.
      GenerateContentResponse response = model.generateContent(
          ContentMaker.fromMultiModalData(
              PartMaker.fromMimeTypeAndData("video/mp4", videoUri),
              PartMaker.fromMimeTypeAndData("image/jpeg", imgUri),
              "Are this video and image correlated?"
          ));

      // Extract the generated text from the model's response.
      String output = ResponseHandler.getText(response);
      return output;
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Vertex AI quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vertex AI Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vertex AI, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

const {VertexAI} = require('@google-cloud/vertexai');

/**
 * TODO(developer): Update these variables before running the sample.
 */
const PROJECT_ID = process.env.CAIP_PROJECT_ID;
const LOCATION = 'us-central1';
const MODEL = 'gemini-1.5-flash-001';

async function generateContent() {
  // Initialize Vertex AI
  const vertexAI = new VertexAI({project: PROJECT_ID, location: LOCATION});
  const generativeModel = vertexAI.getGenerativeModel({model: MODEL});

  const request = {
    contents: [
      {
        role: 'user',
        parts: [
          {
            file_data: {
              file_uri: 'gs://cloud-samples-data/video/animals.mp4',
              mime_type: 'video/mp4',
            },
          },
          {
            file_data: {
              file_uri:
                'gs://cloud-samples-data/generative-ai/image/character.jpg',
              mime_type: 'image/jpeg',
            },
          },
          {text: 'Are this video and image correlated?'},
        ],
      },
    ],
  };

  const result = await generativeModel.generateContent(request);

  console.log(result.response.candidates[0].content.parts[0].text);
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Vertex AI quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vertex AI Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vertex AI, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import vertexai

from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel, Part

vertexai.init(project=PROJECT_ID, location="us-central1")

model = GenerativeModel("gemini-1.5-flash-002")
response = model.generate_content(
    [
        Part.from_uri(
            "gs://cloud-samples-data/generative-ai/video/animals.mp4", "video/mp4"
        ),
        Part.from_uri(
            "gs://cloud-samples-data/generative-ai/image/character.jpg",
            "image/jpeg",
        ),
        "Are these video and image correlated?",
    ]
)

print(response.text)

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