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Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores Earned Sep 17, 2025 EDT
Create Data Stores for Gen AI Applications Earned Sep 10, 2025 EDT
Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned Sep 5, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI Applications Earned Sep 5, 2025 EDT
Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Evaluate ADK Agents with Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation Service Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Model evaluation on Vertex AI Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Deploy a RAG application with vector search in Firestore Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Implement Hybrid Search Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Implement RAG with Vertex AI Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery Earned Aug 13, 2025 EDT
Edit images with Imagen Earned Aug 12, 2025 EDT
Generate and Edit Media with Imagen, Gemini, and Veo Earned Aug 12, 2025 EDT
Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs Earned Aug 12, 2025 EDT
Improve Performance by Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Earned Aug 12, 2025 EDT
Find, Explore and Deploy Model Garden Models Earned Aug 12, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use Earned Aug 11, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI apps with tool use Earned Aug 11, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models Earned Aug 11, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models Earned Aug 11, 2025 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned Dec 12, 2023 EST
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned Jun 5, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Jun 5, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Jun 5, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Jun 4, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Jun 4, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jun 1, 2023 EDT
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Earned Mar 26, 2022 EDT
Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Earned Mar 25, 2022 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned Mar 25, 2022 EDT
App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance Earned Mar 21, 2022 EDT
Securing and Integrating Components of your Application Earned Mar 21, 2022 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Mar 18, 2022 EDT
Getting Started With Application Development Earned Mar 17, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Feb 23, 2022 EST

Complete the Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in building various types of data stores used in Vertex AI Search applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Data stores represent a simple way to make content available to many types of generative AI applications, including search applications, recommendations engines, Gemini Enterprise apps, Agent Development Kit agents, and apps built with Google Gen AI or LangChain SDKs. Connect data from many sources include Cloud Storage, Google Drive, chat apps, mail apps, ticketing systems, third-party file storage providers, Salesforce, and many more.

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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 Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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This course introduces AI Applications. You will learn about the types of apps that you can create using AI Applications, the high-level steps that its data stores automate for you, and what advanced features can be enabled for Search apps. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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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 and evaluate the performance of agents. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Evaluation is important at every step of your Gen AI development process. In this course you will learn how to evaluate gen AI agents built using agent frameworks.

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This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

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This course delves into the complexities of assessing the quality of large language model outputs. It examines the challenges enterprises face due to the subjective and sometimes incorrect nature of LLM responses, including hallucinations and inconsistent results. The course introduces various evaluation metrics for different tasks like classification, text generation, and question answering, such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score, ROUGE, BLEU, and Exact Match. It also explores evaluation methods offered by Vertex AI LLM Evaluation Services, including computation-based, autorater, and human evaluation, providing insights into their application and benefits. Finally, the module covers how to unit test LLM applications within Vertex AI.

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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 base.

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Learn how to create Hybrid Search applications using Vertex AI Vertex Search to combine semantic searching with keyword search to return results based on both semantic meaning and keyword matching.

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Learn how to build your own Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for greater control and flexibility than out-of-the-box implementations. Create a custom RAG solution using Vertex AI APIs, vector stores, and the LangChain framework.

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This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.

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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 of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Generate engaging media with Google's foundation models for media. Create new images with Imagen, or edit your existing photos by adding details or outpainting to create a wider view. Replace backgrounds to put your products in new scenes. And learn the basics of generating videos with Veo!

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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 programatically access foundation models like Gemma and Stable Diffusion XL and access Vertex AI Endpoints. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Model tuning is an effective way to customize large models to your tasks. It's a key step to improve the model's quality and efficiency. Model tuning provides benefits such as higher quality results for your specific tasks and increased model robustness. You learn some of the tuning options available in Vertex AI and when to use them.

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Model Garden is a model library that helps you discover, test, and deploy models from Google and Google partners. Learn how to explore the available models and select the right ones for your use case. And how to deploy and interact with Model Garden models through the Google Cloud console and APIs.

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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 take actions such as sending an email. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"

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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.

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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models

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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.

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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: architecting and building serverless web applications with Firebase, utilizing Firestore for database management, automating deployment processes using Cloud Build, and integrating Google Assistant functionality into your applications.

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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate components from the Google Cloud ecosystem. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to create repeatable deployments by treating infrastructure as code, choose the appropriate application execution environment for an application, and monitor application performance. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer.

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to develop more secure applications, implement federated identity management, and integrate application components by using messaging, event-driven processing, and API gateways. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the second course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance course.

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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

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This course has been updated, please enroll in the new Getting Started With Application Development

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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