Need content for your app? Looking to make your app a little more dynamic? Does your app need a little extra spark? Generative AI has been a big buzzword, but it’s now easier than ever to integrate purpose-built machine learning into your applications.

Vertex AI is Google’s platform for building applications with either pre-built models, like Gemini or PaLM, or custom machine learning models. It encapsulates the entire workflow, from simple generative AI to more complex training, deployment, and refinement of custom models. Whether you’re new to software development or experienced with AI and ML, Vertex AI can help simply the process for you.

This session will cover:
- A brief overview of Vertex AI Studio in the Google Cloud Console
- Testing different prompts and parameters for your application using the Gemini Pro model
- Integrating the Vertex AI SDK into a Node.js backend for use by your frontend app

The sample app for this talk is at https://github.com/cjwhitsitt/aiopoly-functions.

I've also written a Medium post about the basics: https://medium.com/p/3117a64fbd5e