Google Announces New Vertex AI Capabilities - Prompt Management, RAG, and Lyria 3
Action Required
Users must migrate to new models and features to avoid service disruption and maintain access to Vertex AI's generative AI capabilities.
AI Impact Summary
On October 3, 2025, Google is announcing new capabilities within Vertex AI, including prompt management tooling, RAG Cross Corpus Retrieval, and the Lyria 3 model. This release introduces several new features and model updates, including the availability of Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and the deprecation of several Imagen and Veo generation endpoints. This signals ongoing investment and expansion of Vertex AI's generative AI offerings, requiring users to evaluate and migrate to the new models and features to maintain service continuity.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 3 Oct 2025
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high