generative-ai-swift VS vertex-ai-samples

The previous post kicked off the conversation about generative AI, presenting "Hello World!" examples that help you get started with the Gemini API in a more user-friendly way than in Google's documentation. It presented code samples showing you how to use the API from both Google AI as well as GCP Vertex AI. This post follows up with a multimodal example, one that supports streaming output, and another one that supports multi-turn conversations ("chat"), and how to upgrade to the latest 1.0 and 1.5 models, the latter of which is in public preview at the time of this writing.

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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a very befitting Machine Learning solution called Vertex Ai that handles Google Cloud's unified platform for building, deploying, and managing machine learning (ML) models. Our goal is to build a simple Machine Learning application that optimizes all that GCP provides plus an implementation of continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD).

Cross posting some links from another post that HNers found helpful

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (marketing page)

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs (docs entry point)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (cloud console)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden (all the models)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative (studio / playground)

VertexAI is the umbrella for all of the Google models available through their cloud platform.

For the peer comments

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (main page)

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/start/introduction-u... (docs entry point)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (cloud console)

Starting on December 13, developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

Google Cloud Platform (https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai): Conversely, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a comprehensive suite of AI and machine learning services, including APIs for vision, language, conversation, and structured data analysis. Whether you're analyzing images, interpreting human speech, or diving deep into data patterns, GCP has something for you.

VertexAI is a machine learning platform available on Google Cloud. It offers a variety of services to train and deploy AI models, including those for Generative AI.

Depending on how much work you want to put into it, you can get started at HuggingFace with their models and datasets, but you'd need compute power, multiple MLOps, etc. I was introduced to the concept in this video, since Google has their Vertex AI tools on Google Cloud, and there's always LangChain but I'm not sure about anything recent.