Vertex AI Updates: New Models & Deprecations - Immediate Action Required
Action Required
Failure to migrate from deprecated image and video generation endpoints will result in service disruption and require significant code changes.
AI Impact Summary
This announcement details several updates to Vertex AI, including new model releases (Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, Lyria 3, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite), enhancements to existing features like RAG Cross Corpus Retrieval and SQL cells, and the deprecation of several image and video generation endpoints. The deprecation of endpoints related to Imagen generation and Veo 3.0 requires immediate action to avoid service disruption by June 30, 2026. This impacts developers relying on these specific endpoints.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Change type
- deprecation
- Severity
- high