I can't figure out how to try this thing. The closest I got was this sentence:
"To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."
It also includes a link to the TTP form, although the form itself seems to make no reference to Imagen being part of the program anymore, confusingly. (Instead indicating that Imagen is GA.)
1. Go to console.cloud.google.com
2. Go to model garden
3. Search imagegeneration
4. End up at https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google...
And for whatever reason that is where the documentation is.
Sample request
curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
-d @request.json \
"https://us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/publishers/google/models/imagegeneration@002:predict"
{
"instances": [
{
"prompt": "TEXT_PROMPT"
}
],
"parameters": {
"sampleCount": IMAGE_COUNT
}
}
{
"predictions": [
{
"bytesBase64Encoded": "BASE64_IMG_BYTES",
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
{
"mimeType": "image/png",
"bytesBase64Encoded": "BASE64_IMG_BYTES"
}
],
"deployedModelId": "DEPLOYED_MODEL_ID",
"model": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/models/MODEL_ID",
"modelDisplayName": "MODEL_DISPLAYNAME",
"modelVersionId": "1"
}
And also be prepared to wait somewhere between 6- inf months ... at this point the google cloud account reps can't even grease the wheels for us
>> generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access).
Open AI really shows us how it's done, or the way Mistral just dumps a torrent on everyone. That's marketing i can respect.
What a shitshow.
Even calendaring was something that took ages for them to get right. For something like a decade you couldn't move an event from one calendar to another on Android - only via the destop web view.
Google went from being an innovative company to a web version of IBM...a giant lumbering dinosaur that can't get out of its own way, and everyone kinda needs but also deeply loathes
Of course it became immediately obvious to me why the model isn't public. It's just not as good as advertised, that's why. Google should stop deceiving the public.
Results: https://imgur.com/a/JIiuDt9
Results (these are the only two images I generated): https://imgur.com/a/JIiuDt9
Android's advantage has always been that everyone else gets to play. And it's good that we have that. But they aren't exactly the beacon of innovation they think they are or claim to be in marketing copy.