VertexAI - Documentation

Constructor

new VertexAI(init)

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
`init`		assign authentication related information, including the project and location strings, to instantiate a Vertex AI client.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentError

Methods

getGenerativeModel(modelParams, requestOptions)

Gets the GenerativeModel class instance.

This method creates a new instance of the GenerativeModel class with the platform initialization parameters provided in VertexInit and model initialization parameters provided in ModelParams. You can optionally provide RequestOptions to override the default request options.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
`modelParams`		ModelParams Parameters to specify the generative model.
`requestOptions`		RequestOptions Parameters to specify request options

Returns:

Type	Description
	Instance of the GenerativeModel class.

Example

```
const project = 'your-cloud-project';
const location = 'us-central1';
const textModel =  'gemini-1.0-pro';
const visionModel = 'gemini-1.0-pro-vision';

const vertexAI = new VertexAI({project: project, location: location});

// Instantiate models
const generativeModel = vertexAI.getGenerativeModel({
  model: textModel,
  // The following parameters are optional
  // They can also be passed to individual content generation requests
  safetySettings: [{
                     category: HarmCategory.HARM_CATEGORY_DANGEROUS_CONTENT,
                     threshold: HarmBlockThreshold.BLOCK_MEDIUM_AND_ABOVE
                    }],
  generationConfig: {maxOutputTokens: 256},
});

const generativeVisionModel = vertexAI.getGenerativeModel({
  model: visionModel,
});

const generativeModelPreview = vertexAI.preview.getGenerativeModel({
  model: textModel,
});
```