Gen-AI Developer Classroom notes 31/Aug/2025

Cloud Services for Generative AI

• All the cloud providers offers services for enabling Generative AI Application Development.
• They offer services where
  • the models are hosted and we can use models from cloud.
  • Embeddings
  • Vector Databases
  • Cloud Storage integrations
  • Deployments
• Services offered:
  • Google: Vertex
  • AWS: Bedrock
  • Azure: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry

Google Vertex

• Unified AI Platform on GCP which covers
  • model training
  • deployment
  • monitoring
• Access to Google Foundational models
• Core features:
  • Workbench -> Managed Jupyterlab
  • Training
  • Monitoring
  • Prediction Endpoints
  • Vertex AI Studio -> Playground for Gemini, Imagen, Codey
  • Embeddings API for text/image
  • Fine-tuning with LoRA/Adapters

• Pricing

• LangChain can be integrated with Google Vertex and it provides

  • Models:
    • VertexAI
    • ChatVertexAI
    • VertexAIModelGarden