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The Definitive Guide to Google Vertex AI

By : Jasmeet Bhatia, Kartik Chaudhary
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Book Image

The Definitive Guide to Google Vertex AI

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By: Jasmeet Bhatia, Kartik Chaudhary

Overview of this book

While AI has become an integral part of every organization today, the development of large-scale ML solutions and management of complex ML workflows in production continue to pose challenges for many. Google’s unified data and AI platform, Vertex AI, directly addresses these challenges with its array of MLOPs tools designed for overall workflow management. This book is a comprehensive guide that lets you explore Google Vertex AI’s easy-to-advanced level features for end-to-end ML solution development. Throughout this book, you’ll discover how Vertex AI empowers you by providing essential tools for critical tasks, including data management, model building, large-scale experimentations, metadata logging, model deployments, and monitoring. You’ll learn how to harness the full potential of Vertex AI for developing and deploying no-code, low-code, or fully customized ML solutions. This book takes a hands-on approach to developing u deploying some real-world ML solutions on Google Cloud, leveraging key technologies such as Vision, NLP, generative AI, and recommendation systems. Additionally, this book covers pre-built and turnkey solution offerings as well as guidance on seamlessly integrating them into your ML workflows. By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to develop and deploy large-scale production-grade ML solutions using the MLOps tooling and best practices from Google.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Part 1:The Importance of MLOps in a Real-World ML Deployment
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Part 2: Machine Learning Tools for Custom Models on Google Cloud
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Part 3: Prebuilt/Turnkey ML Solutions Available in GCP
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Part 4: Building Real-World ML Solutions with Google Cloud

GenAI with Vertex AI

Vertex AI provides a variety of tools and resources to help you get started with GenAI. You can use Vertex AI Model Garden to explore the different GenAI models that are available and to get help with setting up and using these models. You can also use Vertex AI GenAI Studio to experiment with GenAI models and to create your own prompts.

Understanding foundation models

Within the Vertex AI environment, you will encounter what are termed “foundation models.” These are essentially GenAI models defined based on the nature of the content they are engineered to create. The categories of models available within Vertex AI span across a diverse range, including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Text and chat: For crafting textual content and facilitating chat interactions
  • Images: To generate visual content
  • Code: Generating code, unit tests, and assisting developers
  • Embeddings: Creating representations of text or images in a vector...