CriticalCapability
Vertex AI v1 Released: New Models & Deprecations
Action Required
Failure to migrate from deprecated Imagen and Veo endpoints will result in service disruption and require significant code changes to update applications.
AI Impact Summary
Google is releasing Vertex AI version 1 with several new capabilities, including Lyria 3, RAG Cross Corpus Retrieval, Veo 3.1 Lite, and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT. Critically, the release also deprecates several Imagen and Veo generation endpoints, requiring immediate migration to avoid service disruption by June 30, 2026. This impacts developers using these specific endpoints for image and video generation.
Vertex AI v1 Released: New Models & Deprecations
Affected Systems
Vertex AI
- Date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- critical