Vertex AI Workbench v1 M124 Release: Pytorch 2.3, Python 3.10, and New Capabilities
Action Required
Users must migrate to the new M124 version of Vertex AI Workbench to continue using supported models and features, or risk service disruption due to deprecated endpoints.
AI Impact Summary
Vertex AI Workbench v1 M124 has been released, introducing support for Pytorch 2.3.0 with CUDA 12.1 and Python 3.10, as well as resolving a kernel visibility issue. This release includes significant updates to the underlying infrastructure, such as migrating to Debian 12 (Bookworm) and upgrading Python to version 3.12. Furthermore, the release introduces new capabilities like RAG Cross Corpus Retrieval and Veo 3.1 Lite, alongside updates to existing models like Gemini 2.5 and Lyria 3, and deprecation of older image and video generation endpoints.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 20 Aug 2024
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- critical