Vertex AI Studio is Google’s interactive development environment for generative AI: prompt engineering, model tuning, and prototyping in a single web interface.
What is Vertex AI Studio?
Vertex AI Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) for generative AI on Google Cloud. The web interface enables developers and data scientists to test prompts, evaluate models, and create GenAI prototypes without writing code.
The Studio provides direct access to Google’s foundation models: Gemini for text and multimodality, Imagen for image generation, Codey for code assistance. You can iteratively refine prompts, compare different model versions, and export results directly to API calls.
For advanced use cases, Vertex AI Studio supports supervised fine-tuning and distillation. You can train models on your specific data and create more compact, cost-effective versions.
Common Use Cases
Prompt Engineering and Optimization
A development team tests different prompt variants for a customer service bot. In Studio, they can iteratively adjust system instructions, few-shot examples, and temperature parameters while comparing outputs.
Model Evaluation and Benchmarking
A data science team evaluates different Gemini versions for a classification task. The Studio enables systematic testing with defined test datasets and automatic metric calculation.
Supervised Fine-Tuning
An e-commerce company trains a Gemini model on product descriptions. With 1,000 examples and a few clicks in Studio, they create a specialized model for consistent product texts.
Multimodal Prototypes
An insurance company tests damage image analysis with Gemini Vision. In Studio, they upload sample images and develop prompts that detect and categorize damage.
Knowledge Distillation
A startup uses distillation to create a more cost-effective model. The quality of the larger Gemini Ultra is transferred to a smaller, faster Flash model.
Integration with innFactory
As a Google Cloud Partner, innFactory supports you in developing GenAI applications: from prompt engineering through fine-tuning to production architecture.
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Available Tiers & Options
Freeform Prompting
- Interactive prompt testing
- All Gemini models available
- Multimodal inputs
- No production API
Tuning
- Supervised fine-tuning
- Distillation
- RLHF support
- Requires training data
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Vertex AI Studio?
Vertex AI Studio is Google's interactive development environment for generative AI. It provides a web interface for testing prompts, fine-tuning models, and prototyping GenAI applications without code.
Which models are available in Vertex AI Studio?
Vertex AI Studio provides access to Gemini (Pro, Ultra, Flash), PaLM 2, Imagen for image generation, Codey for code generation, and other foundation models. Custom fine-tuned models can also be tested.
What is the difference between Vertex AI Studio and the API?
Vertex AI Studio is the visual development environment for exploration and prototyping. For production workloads, you use the Vertex AI Generative AI API directly. Prompts from Studio can be exported as API calls.
How much does using Vertex AI Studio cost?
The Studio interface itself is free. Costs arise from model usage (input/output tokens), training, and tuning. Gemini Pro costs approximately 0.00025 USD per 1K input tokens.
Can I use my own models in Vertex AI Studio?
Yes, you can use fine-tuned versions of foundation models or deploy your own models via Model Garden. Vertex AI Studio supports testing all models available in Vertex AI.
