diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 0f16656..a7061aa 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ go.sum /files/* regex /tmp/* +*.json diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3486d5f --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Gemini is the engine. Vertex AI is the entire car. + + * Gemini is the name of the powerful, multimodal AI model family itself. It's the "brain" that performs the reasoning, understands text, images, audio, and video, and + generates responses. + * Vertex AI is the comprehensive, enterprise-grade platform on Google Cloud where you can access, deploy, manage, and even customize models like Gemini. It's the + infrastructure, the dashboard, the security features, and the MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) toolkit that surrounds the engine. + +Here is a more detailed breakdown: + + Gemini AI + + * What it is: A family of highly capable large language models (LLMs). + * What it does: It's the core technology that processes information and generates output. It comes in different sizes and capabilities, like Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini + 1.5 Flash, and Gemini Ultra, each optimized for different tasks (speed, cost, power). + * Key Features: + * Multimodality: Natively understands and reasons across text, code, images, audio, and video. + * Long Context: Can process massive amounts of information at once (e.g., Gemini 1.5 Pro has a 1 million token context window). + * Advanced Reasoning: Capable of complex, multi-step reasoning tasks. + * How you access it: You access Gemini through an API. That API can be part of Vertex AI or part of a simpler platform like Google AI Studio. + + Vertex AI + + * What it is: A fully-managed Machine Learning (ML) platform on Google Cloud. + * What it does: It provides all the tools and infrastructure needed to build, deploy, and manage ML models in a production environment. It's not just for Gemini; you + can use it for custom models built with TensorFlow or PyTorch, or other foundation models. + * Key Features: + * Model Garden: A central place to discover and use Google's foundation models (like Gemini) and hundreds of open-source models. + * Enterprise Security & Governance: Integrates with Google Cloud's robust security features like IAM (Identity and Access Management), VPC Service Controls, and + data encryption. Your data remains within your cloud environment. + * Data Integration: Seamlessly connects to other Google Cloud services like BigQuery and Cloud Storage, allowing you to use your own data with the models. + * Tuning and Customization: Provides tools to fine-tune foundation models like Gemini on your own data to make them experts in your specific domain. + * MLOps: A full suite of tools for automating, monitoring, and managing the entire ML lifecycle (pipelines, versioning, etc.). + + How They Work Together + + You don't choose between Vertex AI and Gemini. You choose how you want to use Gemini, and Vertex AI is the professional, enterprise-grade way to do it. + + * When you call the Gemini API via Vertex AI, you get all the benefits of the Google Cloud platform: security, data privacy, scalability, and integration with your + other cloud resources. This is the path for building production applications. + * There is another way to access Gemini: Google AI Studio. This is a web-based tool designed for rapid prototyping and experimentation. It's great for developers who + want to quickly try out prompts and build an API key, but it doesn't have the enterprise-level MLOps and governance features of Vertex AI. + + Summary Table +