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Yong Boon Lim

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Diamond League

35169 points
Generate and Edit Media with Imagen, Gemini, and Veo Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs Earned Aug 15, 2025 EDT
Improve Performance by Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Earned Aug 14, 2025 EDT
Find, Explore and Deploy Model Garden Models Earned Aug 13, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use Earned Aug 12, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI apps with tool use Earned Aug 11, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models Earned Aug 7, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models Earned Aug 6, 2025 EDT
Deploy a RAG application with vector search in Firestore Earned Aug 6, 2025 EDT
Implement Hybrid Search Earned Aug 4, 2025 EDT
Implement RAG with Vertex AI Earned Aug 4, 2025 EDT
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery Earned Jul 22, 2025 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Jul 21, 2025 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Jul 21, 2025 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Jul 20, 2025 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Jul 17, 2025 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Jul 16, 2025 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Jul 16, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned Jun 19, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned Jun 18, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned Jun 18, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned Jun 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned Jun 16, 2025 EDT
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Aug 12, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Aug 12, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned Aug 11, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Aug 11, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Aug 6, 2024 EDT
Upgrading your skills to work with Generative AI Earned Aug 5, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings Earned Aug 4, 2024 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Enable Google Cloud Customers Earned Aug 4, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud: Prompt Engineering Guide Earned Aug 4, 2024 EDT
BigQuery Fundamentals for Teradata Professionals Earned Aug 3, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Aug 2, 2024 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned Jul 31, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jul 28, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Jan 16, 2024 EST
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jan 15, 2024 EST

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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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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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.

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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools.

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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.

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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment. This is the first course of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud course.

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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 course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.

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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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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. 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 this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Learn about the new skills you'll need to be successful when using generative AI. Google Cloud has used generative AI to help keep you engaged and streamline your learning journey.

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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine.

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This course discusses the key elements of Google's Data Warehouse solution portfolio and strategy.

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Google Cloud : Prompt Engineering Guide examines generative AI tools, how they work. We'll explore how to combine Google Cloud knowledge with prompt engineering to improve Gemini responses.

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This course covers BigQuery fundamentals for professionals who are familiar with SQL-based cloud data warehouses in Teradata and want to begin working in BigQuery. Through interactive lecture content and hands-on labs, you learn how to provision resources, create and share data assets, ingest data, and optimize query performance in BigQuery. Drawing upon your knowledge of Teradata, you also learn about similarities and differences between Teradata and BigQuery to help you get started with data warehouses in BigQuery. After this course, you can continue your BigQuery journey by completing the skill badge quest titled Build and Optimize Data Warehouses with BigQuery.

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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. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Earn a skill badge 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 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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