A competitor to Azure AI Studio, Vertex AI is Google’s unified Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for building, deploying, and scaling custom AI applications. While Gemini Enterprise is the "ready-to-use app" for employees, Vertex AI is the "workbench" where our engineers and data scientists build bespoke solutions. It provides the infrastructure to customize models, connect to internal APIs, and enforce strict data sovereignty controls tailored for financial regulations.
✓ Enterprise-grade governance, data residency, and IAM controls ✓ Access to Model Garden (130+ first-party & open models) ✓ "Grounding" capabilities using enterprise data + Google Search ✓ Low-latency Vector Search for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) ✓ Full MLOps capabilities (evaluation, monitoring, and pipelines) ✓ Ability to fine-tune and "distill" models for specific banking tasks ✓ Access to specialized compute (Google TPUs and NVIDIA GPUs) ✓ Zero-training policy (your data is never used to train Google's models)
Key Tools in Vertex AI:
✓ Model Garden: A curated library letting you choose the right model for the job—including Gemini 1.5 Pro, Flash, Imagen, and even open models like Llama 3 and Mistral. ✓ Vertex AI Agent Builder: A unified developer platform (code & low-code) for building complex, reasoning agents that can execute multi-step workflows. ✓ Vertex AI Search: Google-quality search technology applied to our own private data (PDFs, Intranet, SQL databases) with built-in citation and security. ✓ Colab Enterprise: A managed, secure notebook environment where data scientists can write Python code, experiment with data, and collaborate on models. ✓ AutoML: Allows teams to train high-quality custom machine learning models on their own structured data without writing extensive code. ✓ Evaluation Service: Automated tools to benchmark model performance, ensuring our applications meet strict accuracy and safety standards before deployment. ✓ Conversation Entry Point: API tools to integrate AI agents directly into our existing custom applications, websites, or internal portals.