In addition, Google has launched two products, Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversation, designed to simplify the creation of generative search and chat apps. These tools can be used to build apps for use cases like food ordering, banking assistance, and semi-automated customer service. The company is also addressing the issue of AI-generated content ownership and copyright, stating that it conducts broad data governance reviews to ensure models are free of copyright claims.
Key takeaways:
- Google Cloud announced updates to Vertex AI, its cloud-based platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models, during its annual Cloud Next conference.
- Vertex AI now features updated AI models for text, image and code generation, as well as new third-party models from startups including Anthropic and Meta.
- Google has added third party models including Claude 2 to Vertex AI’s Model Garden, a collection of prebuilt models and tools that can be customized to an enterprise’s needs.
- Google offers two products in Vertex designed to abstract away the complexity of creating generative search and chat apps: Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversation, both of which are now generally available.