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Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

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Re: Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

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Interesting statement and would be keen to see if businesses would trust Google to try out these capabilities, or other smaller recent services as the preferred choice given their flexibility of integration with existing cloud choices.

It seems we may find companies on all major cloud providers in the near future to guarantee access to unique proprietary services that cloud providers are starting to differentiate themselves with from their competitors

Re: Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

#4

i didn't try it as this requires you to give payment information for a free trial and i got sidetracked what i did learn, is that somehow, google has all of my credit cards despite me never sharing it on the account i was using.

How did you learn that Google has all your credit cards?

Re: Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

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post #3

Interesting statement and would be keen to see if businesses would trust Google to try out these capabilities, or other smaller recent services as the preferred choice given their flexibility of integration with existing cloud choices. It seems we may find companies on all major cloud providers in the near future to guarantee access to unique proprietary services that cloud providers are starting to differentiate the…

Sure, IaaS is commodified so the next opportunity for differentiation & value add is in services.

For GCP specifically, the Anthis/Omni stuff seems like a way to sell those services even if the infrastructure isn't actually in GCP.

Re: Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

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I really really wonder how the price of vertex.so compares - in practice - to the openai api for use by a startup with unpredictable and non-sustained usage??? The multitenancy assumptions that are part of the openai api cost structure might make it much cheaper. Has anybody modeled this? I realize the LLM’s aren’t equivalent today, but longterm they could be.

Re: Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

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Extremely curious that PaLM-E, PaLI, and GPT-4 were trained to be multimodal (accept non-text inputs, such as images) but the released API's are text-only. In GCP's case, here, they've released PaLM-2 which is not multimodal like PaLM-E and PaLI. This prevents using it for visual reasoning[0].

I'm just wondering why multiple parties seem reluctant to allow the public to use this.

0: https://visualqa.org

Re: Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

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Extremely curious that PaLM-E, PaLI, and GPT-4 were trained to be multimodal (accept non-text inputs, such as images) but the released API's are text-only. In GCP's case, here, they've released PaLM-2 which is not multimodal like PaLM-E and PaLI. This prevents using it for visual reasoning[0]. I'm just wondering why multiple parties seem reluctant to allow the public to use this. 0: https://visualqa.org

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