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    Vertex AI

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVertex AI on Google Cloud is an MLOps solution, used to build, deploy, and scale machine learning (ML) models with fully managed ML tools for any use case.

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    TensorFlow

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATensorFlow is an open-source machine learning software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. It was originally developed by Google.N/A
    Pricing
    Vertex AITensorFlow
    Editions & Modules
    Imagen model for image generation
    $0.0001
    Starting at
    Text, chat, and code generation
    $0.0001
    per 1,000 characters
    Text data upload, training, deployment, prediction
    $0.05
    per hour
    Video data training and prediction
    $0.462
    per node hour
    Image data training, deployment, and prediction
    $1.375
    per node hour
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    Pricing Offerings
    Vertex AITensorFlow
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is based on the Vertex AI tools and services, storage, compute, and Google Cloud resources used.—
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    User Ratings
    Vertex AITensorFlow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (10 ratings)
    6.0
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    Usability
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    9.0
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    Performance
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
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    Configurability
    6.9
    (7 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Vertex AITensorFlow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Vertex AI seems to be a lot more accurate with image editing versus other competitors (including free one). We do a lot of image creation, especially of dogs in very certain scenarios. We use Adobe Stock to get us started, but many times we need some very specific edits done to the image. We've found Vertex can produce those with a lot more precision than other AI image generators.
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    Open Source
    TensorFlow is great for most deep learning purposes. This is especially true in two domains: 1. Computer vision: image classification, object detection and image generation via generative adversarial networks 2. Natural language processing: text classification and generation. The good community support often means that a lot of off-the-shelf models can be used to prove a concept or test an idea quickly. That, and Google's promotion of Colab means that ideas can be shared quite freely. Training, visualizing and debugging models is very easy in TensorFlow, compared to other platforms (especially the good old Caffe days). In terms of productionizing, it's a bit of a mixed bag. In our case, most of our feature building is performed via Apache Spark. This means having to convert Parquet (columnar optimized) files to a TensorFlow friendly format i.e., protobufs. The lack of good JVM bindings mean that our projects end up being a mix of Python and Scala. This makes it hard to reuse some of the tooling and support we wrote in Scala. This is where MXNet shines better (though its Scala API could do with more work).
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    Pros
    Google
    • Vertex AI comes with support for LOTs of LLMs out of the box
    • MLOps tools are available that help to standardize operational aspects
    • Document AI is an out of the box feature that works just perfectly for our use cases of automating lots to tedious data extraction tasks from images as well as papers
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    Open Source
    • A vast library of functions for all kinds of tasks - Text, Images, Tabular, Video etc.
    • Amazing community helps developers obtain knowledge faster and get unblocked in this active development space.
    • Integration of high-level libraries like Keras and Estimators make it really simple for a beginner to get started with neural network based models.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Customization of AutoML models - A must needed capability to be able to tweak hyperparameters and also working with different models
    • Model Explainability -Providing more comprehensive explanations about how models are utilizing features could be very beneficial
    • Model versioning and experiments tracking - Enhancing the versioning capability could be good for end users
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    Open Source
    • RNNs are still a bit lacking, compared to Theano.
    • Cannot handle sequence inputs
    • Theano is perhaps a bit faster and eats up less memory than TensorFlow on a given GPU, perhaps due to element-wise ops. Tensorflow wins for multi-GPU and “compilation” time.
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    Usability
    Google
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    Open Source
    Support of multiple components and ease of development.
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    Performance
    Google
    It's not always instant, but understandable when it's under heavy load. It's not impressive nor disappointing, just what is expected. But when calling this platform through API's for it to do the actions requested there is minimal delay and wait time. It feels very responsive and quick when integrating it with a call center chat platform for example.
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    Open Source
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    Support Rating
    Google
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    Open Source
    Community support for TensorFlow is great. There's a huge community that truly loves the platform and there are many examples of development in TensorFlow. Often, when a new good technique is published, there will be a TensorFlow implementation not long after. This makes it quick to ally the latest techniques from academia straight to production-grade systems. Tooling around TensorFlow is also good. TensorBoard has been such a useful tool, I can't imagine how hard it would be to debug a deep neural network gone wrong without TensorBoard.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
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    Open Source
    Use of cloud for better execution power is recommended.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Vertex AI is much more accessible to non-developers than IBM's product. Moreover, Vertex AI integrates well with other Google products, enhancing its capabilities. A big plus is its integration with cloud storage, that allows for better management and access of data. In all honesty, it wasn't much of a difficult choice to choose Vertex AI.
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    Open Source
    Keras is built on top of TensorFlow, but it is much simpler to use and more Python style friendly, so if you don't want to focus on too many details or control and not focus on some advanced features, Keras is one of the best options, but as far as if you want to dig into more, for sure TensorFlow is the right choice
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • It is pay as you go model so it'll save more cost of your org. In our case previously we used to incurred 1-2L/Month now we are reduced it to 80k-1L.
    • It'll help you save your model training & model selection time as it provides pre-trained models in autoML.
    • It'll help you in terms of Security wherein we can use row level security access to authorized persons.
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    Open Source
    • Learning is s bit difficult takes lot of time.
    • Developing or implementing the whole neural network is time consuming with this, as you have to write everything.
    • Once you have learned this, it make your job very easy of getting the good result.
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    ScreenShots

    Vertex AI Screenshots

    Screenshot of an introduction to generative AI on Vertex AI - Vertex AI Studio offers a Google Cloud console tool for rapidly prototyping and testing generative AI models.Screenshot of gen AI for summarization, classification, and extraction - Text prompts can be created to handle any number of tasks with Vertex AI’s generative AI support. Some of the most common tasks are classification, summarization, and extraction. Vertex AI’s PaLM API for text can be used to design prompts with flexibility in terms of their structure and format.Screenshot of Custom ML training overview and documentation - An overview of the custom training workflow in Vertex AI, the benefits of custom training, and the various training options that are available. This page also details every step involved in the ML training workflow from preparing data to predictions.Screenshot of ML model training and creation -  A guide that shows how Vertex AI’s AutoML is used to create and train custom machine learning models with minimal effort and machine learning expertise.Screenshot of deployment for batch or online predictions - When using a model to solve a real-world problem, the Vertex AI prediction service can be used for batch and online predictions.