As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice....
Generative AI Specialization: Certification & Skill Badge Requirements
1. Certifications:
- Two employees with Professional Machine Learning Engineer certifications PLUS
- Two employees with Professional Data Engineer certifications OR Professional Cloud Developer certifications
2a. Technical Expert Badges: or: 2b. Skill Badges:
PLEASE NOTE: Completing the first two badges unlocks the L400 badge Until September 30, 2025, we will accept the gen AI skill badges outlined in 2b in the application. From October 1, 2025, we will only accept Build with Vertex AI Technical Expert Badge & Intelligent Search Technical Expert Badges. These new Technical Expert badges will ensure that partners are credentialed on the latest gen AI technology
3. Google Cloud Responsible AI training:

Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to...

Complete the Develop solutions using Model Garden APIs skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use Vertex AI Model Garden features when building gen AI solutions. You will use partner APIs such as Anthropic Claude ands Meta Llama, deploy and...

Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition...

This lab tests your ability to develop a real-world Generative AI Q&A solution using a RAG framework. You will use Firestore as a vector database and deploy a Flask app as a user interface to query a food safety knowledge...

Complete the Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use the Gen AI evaluation service. You will evaluate models to select the best model for a given task, compare models against each other...

Complete the Build search and recommendations AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in deploying search and recommendation applications through AI Applications. Additionally, emphasis is placed on constructing a tailored Q&A system utilizing data stores. Please note that AI...

Complete the Configure AI Applications to optimize search results skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in configuring search results from AI Applications. You will be tasked with implementing search serving controls to boost and bury results, filter entries from search...

Complete the Extend Gemini Enterprise Assistant Capabilities skill badge to demonstrate your ability to extend Gemini Enterprise assistant's capabilities with actions, grounding with Google Search, and a conversational agent. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google...

Complete the Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your ability to create, configure, and access media search and recommendations applications using AI Applications. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent...

This course on Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps is composed of a set of labs to give you a hands on experience to interacting with new Generative AI technologies. You will learn how to...

In this course, you'll use text embeddings for tasks like classification, outlier detection, text clustering and semantic search. You'll combine semantic search with the text generation capabilities of an LLM to build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, such as for...