Generative AI on Vertex AI deprecations

The Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service (section "Discontinuation of Services") defines the deprecation policy that applies to Generative AI on Vertex AI. The deprecation policy only applies to the services, features, or products listed therein.

After a service, feature, or product is officially deprecated, it continues to be available for at least the period of time defined in the Terms of Service. After this period of time, the service is scheduled for shutdown.

This page lists deprecations for Generative AI on Vertex AI.

Generative AI module in the Vertex AI SDK

Deprecation date: June 24, 2025. Shutdown date: June 24, 2026.

As of June 24, 2025, the Generative AI module in the Vertex AI SDK is deprecated and will be shut down on June 24, 2026. To prepare for this change, migrate to the Google Gen AI SDK. For more information, see the Vertex AI SDK migration guide.

Imagen on Vertex AI and multimodal feature deprecations

Deprecation date: June 24, 2025. Shutdown date: September 24, 2025.

As of June 24, 2025, the following features and models are deprecated and will be shut down on September 24, 2025 :

  • Image captioning
  • Visual question answering (VQA)
  • Imagen 1 models: imagegeneration@002
  • Imagen 2 models: imagegeneration@005 and imagegeneration@006

For more information about migrating to Imagen 3, see Migrate to Imagen 3.