Google Vertex AI Generative AI Updates: New Features & Deprecations
Action Required
Failure to migrate to the recommended endpoints before the deprecation date will result in service disruption for applications utilizing the affected image and video generation models.
AI Impact Summary
Google is releasing updates to Vertex AI Generative AI, including new features like RAG Cross Corpus Retrieval, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, Lyria 3, and Vector Search 2.0. Critically, several older image and video generation endpoints are being deprecated, requiring migration by June 30, 2026. This impacts developers relying on these specific endpoints and necessitates a review of their current model configurations.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 30 Aug 2024
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high