I’ve created a tuned model using the generative ai library, but I cannot find it anywhere in the GCP console, except for inside Google AI Studio.
Is there some way to grant other users access to my Google AI studio workspace? If these models are only visible to me, that would be extremely problematic because these tuned models do not belong to me, they belong to my company.
Where can I view a tuned model within the GCP console?
Google AI Studio, its Gemini API, and API keys there use a simplified credential structure. The AI studio user interface is a consumer application, Google’s own app, tied to your login, which you can see at lower-left. It contains your personal interactions with AI, now a recording that can’t be turned off.
Models can be listed by the model API endpoint.
Tuned models are tied to a project, and thus may have delegation and publishing, need to use OAuth2. It is a bit of paradigm shift from other AI providers, because of the existing API-as-a-service and Google cloud apps platform which generative AI is placed on, that can be developed and used by either assigned internal members, or general account holders. It is a significantly different foundation from “my app server sends backend inputs, get AI outputs”.
You can consider the UI to be an experimentation platform, with developer-oriented controls. It also presents more opportunities to spend money, use other models, and do just about anything. Not something to hand over.
I would develop an end-user application. Maintain your own user accounts. You are not then trying to shim Google accounts and user-made API calls into an awkward platform with 1000 rights to be assigned. Employ your tuned model along with the jail of programming and chat management you desire in your user-facing app. This gives you easy migration to another AI provider, also.
A review of the odd process of producing a Google desktop app and set up a cloud login screen for getting auth and transforming to token – for server-to-server credentials.
It’s possible to move around projects and APIs between owners in Google, giving your developments to the payer (if you can find a client that actually has any admin skills). However, AI studio’s connection to a project, and what happens to your UI login if the project behind it is the one you are unassigned from to hand over ownership to a company account, is certainly unclear to me.