Enhanced Tools and Models: What's New in Google's Generative AI Offering

Google Cloud has announced the general availability of its generative AI services, powered by Vertex AI, the machine learning platform as a service (ML PaaS) offering. This update allows enterprises and organizations to integrate the platform's capabilities into their applications. Developers now have access to a range of new tools and models, including the world completion model driven by PaLM 2 and the Embeddings API for text. They can also utilize the Generative AI Studio to fine-tune and deploy customized models. The Vertex AI platform incorporates enterprise-grade data governance, security, and safety features, ensuring customer confidence in consuming foundation models and building generative AI applications. The Model Garden provides customers with access to over 60 base models from Google and its partners, with the promise of adding more models in the future. Additionally, the Codey model, which offers code completion, code generation, and chat functionalities, is now ava...