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> Starting on December 13, developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

AI Studio looks alright but I'm curious if folks here have experience to share with Vertex AI. I worked on a project using it not long ago and it was a complete mess. The thick client SDKs felt so unpolished and clunky compared to other Google Cloud products and the whole thing is just seems way harder to integrate than say ChatGPT.

Maybe things have changed recently but I'm honestly surprised to see them promoting it.

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lawik2y ago

Just making REST calls against the predict endpoint is simple enough. Finding the right example document in the documentation was a mess. Didn't get a correct generated client for Elixir from the client generators. But this curl example got me there with minimal problems. Aside from the plentiful problems of auth and access on GCP.

https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/text/t...

You might need to do the song and dance of generating short-lived tokens. It is a whole thing. But the API endpoint itself has worked fine for what I needed. Eventually.

OpenAI was much easier of course. So much easier.

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