This morning, I checked out Vertex AI docs and was impressed by the open-source models as APIs.

Model as a Service (MaaS) gives access to large open models via a managed, serverless API, removing the need for your infrastructure.

Check the new documentation in 🧵 to learn more

🚀 Deploying agents on Vertex AI Agent Engine with Terraform!

Vertex AI launched a Terraform resource to deploy agents using custom classes or agentic frameworks like ADK.

Check out the notebook and blog post for the full code and a step-by-step guide in the 🧵

🚀 Deploying open models with Terraform on Vertex AI!

Vertex AI Model Garden just launched the google_vertex_ai_endpoint_with_model_garden_deployment Terraform resource to manage your open model deployment (Hugging Face or Model Garden) with one unique main.tf.

Docs and code in the 🧵

NEW TUTORIAL! Build AI agents with multimodal memory

I've mentioned why agents need memory, but extracting facts from images, videos, and audio requires Gemini-powered memory.

Check the new tutorial in 🧵 on building an agent with Vertex AI Memory Bank for personalized multimodal interactions!