Vertex AI, Google Cloud's machine learning platform as a service (ML PaaS) offering, has officially made generative AI support available, according to an announcement by Google. The company stated in a blog post, "At Google Cloud, our goal is to ensure that generative AI is accessible to everyone. Achieving this requires more than just providing powerful foundational models to businesses, governments, and developers. Models also need to be supported by platforms that facilitate rapid and secure adoption, with entry points that cater to organizations regardless of their software or data science expertise." As a result, Google Cloud customers now have the opportunity to utilize the latest platform features for developing and running unique generative AI applications. The company further added, "With this update, developers can access our text model powered by PaLM 2, the Embeddings API for text, and other foundational models available in Model Garden. Additionally, the...