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Deploy an Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK) Earned ديسمبر 17, 2025 EST
Understand and Respond to Media Earned أغسطس 28, 2025 EDT
Find, Explore and Deploy Model Garden Models Earned أغسطس 28, 2025 EDT
Improve Performance by Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Earned أغسطس 28, 2025 EDT
Edit images with Imagen Earned أغسطس 28, 2025 EDT
Generate and Edit Media in Vertex AI Earned أغسطس 28, 2025 EDT
Evaluate ADK Agents with Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation Service Earned أغسطس 26, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned أغسطس 26, 2025 EDT
Model evaluation on Vertex AI Earned أغسطس 26, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use Earned أغسطس 26, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI apps with tool use Earned أغسطس 26, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Recommendations with AI Applications Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Improve Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise Search Results Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise Analytics Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise UI Configurations Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned أغسطس 25, 2025 EDT
Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores Earned أغسطس 22, 2025 EDT
Introduction to NotebookLM Earned أغسطس 22, 2025 EDT
Create Data Stores for Gen AI Applications Earned أغسطس 22, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI Applications Earned أغسطس 22, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini Enterprise Assistant Capabilities Earned أغسطس 22, 2025 EDT
Configure AI Applications to optimize search results Earned أغسطس 22, 2025 EDT
Deploy and Evaluate Model Garden Models Earned يوليو 18, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI Earned يونيو 17, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Gemini Gems – Your ultimate marketing sidekick Earned يونيو 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned مايو 15, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned مايو 15, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned مايو 15, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned مايو 15, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned مايو 15, 2025 EDT
Develop Advanced Enterprise Search and Conversation Applications Earned مارس 25, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned مارس 10, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud Earned مارس 4, 2025 EST
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Gemini Enterprise Earned يناير 28, 2025 EST
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned ديسمبر 13, 2024 EST
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned ديسمبر 13, 2024 EST
Build and Deploy a Generative AI solution using a RAG framework Earned ديسمبر 12, 2024 EST
Create Image Captioning Models Earned ديسمبر 5, 2024 EST
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned ديسمبر 5, 2024 EST
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned ديسمبر 5, 2024 EST
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned ديسمبر 4, 2024 EST
Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps Earned ديسمبر 4, 2024 EST
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned سبتمبر 9, 2024 EDT
Deploying Search and Chat Apps using Agent Builder Earned سبتمبر 9, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned أغسطس 19, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned أغسطس 19, 2024 EDT
Gemini for end-to-end SDLC Earned أغسطس 19, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Security Engineers Earned أغسطس 19, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Cloud Architects Earned أغسطس 19, 2024 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Earned نوفمبر 29, 2023 EST
Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned نوفمبر 28, 2023 EST
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage Earned نوفمبر 27, 2023 EST
Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey Earned نوفمبر 22, 2023 EST

In this challenge lab, you will demonstrate your ability to author agents using Agent Development Kit (ADK), deploy those agents to Agent Engine, and use them from a web app. Complete the challenge lab to earn a Google Cloud skill badge.

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Explore a variety of techniques for using Gemini to understand image, audio, video, and live-streaming media. You will discover how meaningful information can be extracted from each of these forms of media to use in media-rich applications.

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Model Garden is a model library that helps you discover, test, and deploy models from Google and Google partners. Learn how to explore the available models and select the right ones for your use case. And how to deploy and interact with Model Garden models through the Google Cloud console and APIs.

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Model tuning is an effective way to customize large models to your tasks. It's a key step to improve the model's quality and efficiency. Model tuning provides benefits such as higher quality results for your specific tasks and increased model robustness. You learn some of the tuning options available in Vertex AI and when to use them.

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Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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This course dives into the world of media creation in Vertex AI using Nano Banana and Veo. Learn to design text and image-based prompts to produce high-quality, consistent images, and captivating, cinematic video clips. You'll also learn to refine generated assets using core editing functions. Finally, this course guides you through multi-tool workflow implementations for creative control and consistency, empowering you to transform images into video clips and leverage Gemini for prompt writing assistance and feedback.

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Evaluation is important at every step of your Gen AI development process. In this course you will learn how to evaluate gen AI agents built using agent frameworks.

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This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

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This course delves into the complexities of assessing the quality of large language model outputs. It examines the challenges enterprises face due to the subjective and sometimes incorrect nature of LLM responses, including hallucinations and inconsistent results. The course introduces various evaluation metrics for different tasks like classification, text generation, and question answering, such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score, ROUGE, BLEU, and Exact Match. It also explores evaluation methods offered by Vertex AI LLM Evaluation Services, including computation-based, autorater, and human evaluation, providing insights into their application and benefits. Finally, the module covers how to unit test LLM applications within Vertex AI.

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Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to take actions such as sending an email. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"

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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.

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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models

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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.

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Complete the Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your ability to create, configure, and access media search and recommendations applications using AI Applications. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Do you want to keep your users engaged by suggesting content they'll love? This course equips you with the skills to build a cutting-edge recommendations app using your own data with no prior machine learning knowledge. You learn to leverage AI Applications to build recommendation applications so that audiences can discover more personalized content, like what to watch or read next, with Google-quality results customized using optimization objectives.

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If you've worked with data, you know that some data is more reliable than other data. In this course, you'll learn a variety of techniques to present the most reliable or useful results to your users. Create serving controls to boost or bury search results. Rank search results to ensure that each query is answered by the most relevant data. If needed, tune your search engine. Learn to measure search results to ensure your search applications deliver the best possible results to each user. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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AI Applications provides built-in analytics for your Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise apps. Learn what metrics are tracked and how to view them in this course. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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Initial deployment of Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise apps takes only a few clicks, but getting the configurations right can elevate a deployment from a basic off-the-shelf app to an excellent custom search or recommendations experience. In this course, you'll learn more about the many ways you can customize and improve search, recommendations, and Gemini Enterprise apps. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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Complete the Build search and recommendations AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in deploying search and recommendation applications through AI Applications. Additionally, emphasis is placed on constructing a tailored Q&A system utilizing data stores. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Complete the Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in building various types of data stores used in Vertex AI Search applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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NotebookLM is an AI-powered collaborator that helps you do your best thinking. After uploading your documents, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so you can read, take notes, and collaborate with it to refine and organize your ideas. NotebookLM Pro gives you everything already included with NotebookLM, as well as higher utilization limits, access to premium features, and additional sharing options and analytics.

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Data stores represent a simple way to make content available to many types of generative AI applications, including search applications, recommendations engines, Gemini Enterprise apps, Agent Development Kit agents, and apps built with Google Gen AI or LangChain SDKs. Connect data from many sources include Cloud Storage, Google Drive, chat apps, mail apps, ticketing systems, third-party file storage providers, Salesforce, and many more.

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This course introduces AI Applications. You will learn about the types of apps that you can create using AI Applications, the high-level steps that its data stores automate for you, and what advanced features can be enabled for Search apps. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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Complete the Extend Gemini Enterprise Assistant Capabilities skill badge to demonstrate your ability to extend Gemini Enterprise assistant's capabilities with actions, grounding with Google Search, and a conversational agent. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Complete the Configure AI Applications to optimize search results skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in configuring search results from AI Applications. You will be tasked with implementing search serving controls to boost and bury results, filter entries from search results and display metadata in your search interface. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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In this skill bagde, you will demonstrate your ability to use and compare models available in the Vertex AI Model Garden. You'll deploy a model to a Vertex AI Endpoint, query other models via their API, and use Vertex AI's Gen AI evaluation service to measure the performance of multiple models.

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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Vertex AI empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.

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This video covers how to create your own Gemini Gems, advanced AI capabilities that can automate repetitive tasks and supercharge your productivity.

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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools.

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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape s the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.

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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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In this course, you'll use text embeddings for tasks like classification, outlier detection, text clustering and semantic search. You'll combine semantic search with the text generation capabilities of an LLM to build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, such as for question-answering systems, using Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Google Cloud databases.

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This course introduces Google Cloud's AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, with a focus on developing both generative and predictive AI projects. It explores the various technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI lifecycle, empowering data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers to enhance their expertise through interactive exercises.

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In this course, you learn about data engineering on Google Cloud, the roles and responsibilities of data engineers, and how those map to offerings provided by Google Cloud. You also learn about ways to address data engineering challenges.

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Unite Google’s expertise in search and AI with Gemini Enterprise, a powerful tool designed to help employees find specific information from document storage, email, chats, ticketing systems, and other data sources, all from a single search bar. The Gemini Enterprise assistant can also help brainstorm, research, outline documents, and take actions like inviting coworkers to a calendar event to accelerate knowledge work and collaboration of all kinds. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.

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Demonstrate your ability to implement updated prompt engineering techniques and utilize several of Gemini's key capacilities including multimodal understanding and function calling. Then integrate generative AI into a RAG application deployed to Cloud Run. This course contains labs that are to be used as a test environment. They are deployed to test your understanding as a learner with a limited scope. These technologies can be used with fewer limitations in a real world environment.

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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images

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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.

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A Business Leader in Generative AI can articulate the capabilities of core cloud Generative AI products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey and how they can leverage Google Cloud's generative AI products to overcome these challenges.

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This course on Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps is composed of a set of labs to give you a hands on experience to interacting with new Generative AI technologies. You will learn how to create end-to-end search and conversational experiences by following examples. These technologies complement predefined intent-based chat experiences created in Dialogflow with LLM-based, generative answers that can be based on your own data. Also, they allow you to porvide enterprise-grade search experiences for internal and external websites to search documents, structure data and public websites.

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Text Prompt Engineering Techniques introduces you to consider different strategic approaches & techniques to deploy when writing prompts for text-based generative AI tasks.

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This quest will test your ability to create and deploy both Search applications and Chatbots using Vertex AI Agent Builder and Dialgflow. You will also be tasked with implementing a custom RAG system that uses the Discovery API to query a Vertex AI Data Store and use Gemini to answer user questions. You will use the following technologies and Google Cloud services: Vertex AI Agent Builder Search Apps Agents Gemini The assessment is divided into three main tasks: Building and deploying a Website Search App Deploying a Chatbot built using Vertex AI Agent Builder Creating a Custom Q&A Solution using the Discovery API

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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you secure your cloud environment and resources. You learn how to deploy example workloads into an environment in Google Cloud, identify security misconfigurations with Gemini, and remediate security misconfigurations with Gemini. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves your cloud security posture. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PCA (Professional Cloud Architect) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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