Overview of generative AI in Google Cloud

The pace of generative AI development in Google Cloud is nothing short of astonishing. It seems like almost every day, a new model version, service, or feature is announced. In this section, I’ll introduce the various models and products at a high level, which will set the stage for deeper dives later in this chapter.

Overall, the models and products are categorized by modality, such as text, code, image, and video. Let’s begin our journey with a discussion of Google’s various generative AI models.

Google’s generative AI models

Google has created many generative AI models over the past few years, with a dramatic acceleration of new models and model versions launched in the past year. This section discusses the Google first-party foundation models that are currently available on Google Cloud in early 2024, starting with the quite famous “Gemini.”

Gemini API

As of early 2024, Gemini is...