Google Announces Vertex AI Generative AI Updates & Deprecations
Action Required
Developers relying on deprecated image and video generation endpoints will experience service disruption if they do not migrate to the recommended replacements before June 30, 2026.
AI Impact Summary
Google is announcing updates and new features for Vertex AI Generative AI, including the availability of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model and various enhancements to RAG Engine, Colab Enterprise, and Workbench instances. Notably, several older image and video generation endpoints are being deprecated, requiring users to migrate to newer endpoints by June 30, 2026, to avoid service disruption. This impacts developers utilizing these specific endpoints for image and video generation tasks.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high