Need help on Imagen 3 model

[Radhabaran_Mohanty]

I am participating in the Meity and Google hackathon. I have selected a challenge (‘BigBasket’) where I need to extensively use Imagen 3 vision model. I am using imagen 3 in Vertex AI. However, in the colab, i am getting the following error. Seems to me an access authorization error. My understanding is all participants will be getting free access to use the models and apis as part of the competition. Could you please guide me.

PermissionDenied: 403 Vertex AI API has not been used in project gen-lang-client-0561549637 before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry. [links {
description: “Google developers console API activation”
url: “https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/aiplatform.googleapis.com/overview?project=gen-lang-client-0561549637”
}
, reason: “SERVICE_DISABLED”
domain: “googleapis.com”

[afirstenberg]

Welcome to the forums!

The issue isn’t that you’re not permitted to Imagen3.
The issue is that you haven’t enabled the Vertex AI API for that project.

As the message says - go to that link and enable the API. The screen should look something like this, and this is the button you need to click: