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Balaji Devendran

Member since 2021

Silver League

32042 points
Implement RAG with Agent Platform Earned مارس 2, 2026 EST
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery Earned فبراير 28, 2026 EST
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned يونيو 13, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned مايو 24, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned مايو 24, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned مايو 24, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned مايو 24, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned مايو 22, 2025 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: ACE Exam Prep Earned يناير 12, 2025 EST
Search with AI Applications Earned نوفمبر 4, 2023 EDT
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned أكتوبر 26, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Explorer : Vertex AI Earned أكتوبر 25, 2023 EDT
Enterprise Search on Generative AI App Builder Earned أكتوبر 20, 2023 EDT
Implementing Generative AI with Vertex AI Earned أكتوبر 19, 2023 EDT
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned أكتوبر 17, 2023 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned أكتوبر 11, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned أكتوبر 9, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned أكتوبر 8, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned أكتوبر 8, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned أكتوبر 8, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned سبتمبر 25, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned سبتمبر 25, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned سبتمبر 25, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned سبتمبر 25, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned سبتمبر 22, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned أغسطس 24, 2023 EDT
Cloud Development Earned أغسطس 14, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Earned أغسطس 13, 2021 EDT
Securing and Integrating Components of your Application Earned مايو 23, 2021 EDT
Getting Started With Application Development Earned مايو 10, 2021 EDT

Learn how to build your own Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for greater control and flexibility than out-of-the-box implementations. Create a custom RAG solution using Agent Platform APIs, vector stores, and the LangChain framework.

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This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.

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This course explores Gemini in BigQuery, a suite of AI-driven features to assist data-to-AI workflow. These features include data exploration and preparation, code generation and troubleshooting, and workflow discovery and visualization. Through conceptual explanations, a practical use case, and hands-on labs, the course empowers data practitioners to boost their productivity and expedite the development pipeline.

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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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Learn how to use NotebookLM to create a personalized study guide for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam. You'll review NotebookLM features, create a notebook in NotebookLM, and learn how to use a study guide to practice for a certification exam.

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(Previously named "Developing apps with Vertex AI Agent Builder: Search". Please note there maybe instances in this course where previous product names and titles are used) Enterprises of all sizes have trouble making their information readily accessible to employees and customers alike. Internal documentation is frequently scattered across wikis, file shares, and databases. Similarly, consumer-facing sites often offer a vast selection of products, services, and information, but customers are frustrated by ineffective site search and navigation capabilities. This course teaches you to use AI Applications to integrate enterprise-grade generative AI search.

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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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Enterprises of all sizes have trouble making their information readily accessible to employees and customers alike. Internal documentation is frequently scattered across wikis, file shares, and databases. Similarly, consumer-facing sites often offer a vast selection of products, services, and information, but customers are frustrated by ineffective site search and navigation capabilities. This course teaches you to use Generative AI App Builder to integrate enterprise-grade generative AI search.

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This course will help ML Engineers, Developers, and Data Scientists implement Large Language Models for Generative AI use cases with Vertex AI. The first two modules of this course contain links to videos and prerequisite course materials that will build your knowledge foundation in Generative AI. Please do not skip these modules. The advanced modules in this course assume you have completed these earlier modules.

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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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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 course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.

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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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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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Earn a skill badge by passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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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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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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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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The hands-on labs in this Quest are structured to give experienced app developers hands-on practice with the state-of-the-art developing applications in Google Cloud. The topics align with the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Certification. These labs follow the sequence of activities needed to create and deploy an app in Google Cloud from beginning to end. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, it is recommended that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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Twelve years ago Lily started the Pet Theory chain of veterinary clinics, and has been expanding rapidly. Now, Pet Theory is experiencing some growing pains: their appointment scheduling system is not able to handle the increased load, customers aren't receiving lab results reliably through email and text, and veteranerians are spending more time with insurance companies than with their patients. Lily wants to build a cloud-based system that scales better than the legacy solution and doesn't require lots of ongoing maintenance. The team has decided to go with serverless technology. For the labs in the Google Cloud Run Serverless Quest, you will read through a fictitious business scenario in each lab and assist the characters in implementing a serverless solution. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google…

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to develop more secure applications, implement federated identity management, and integrate application components by using messaging, event-driven processing, and API gateways. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the second course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance course.

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This course has been updated, please enroll in the new Getting Started With Application Development

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