Stay up to date with the latest Vertex AI updates, new features, and improvements. Here's what changed in 2026.
Through late 2025 and into 2026, Google expanded Vertex AI with Gemini
0 and subsequent Gemini model generations featuring improved reasoning, native tool use, and multimodal Live API for real
The Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol launched to standardize multi
agent orchestration across Vertex AI and third
Trillium TPUs became generally available, delivering substantial price
performance improvements over v5e/v5p for large
Model Garden broadened to include newer Claude, Llama, and Mistral generations with unified billing. Grounding options expanded beyond Google Search to include enterprise data, Maps, and third
Vertex AI Evaluation added more automatic metrics for agent trajectories and tool
use quality, and Provisioned Throughput coverage was extended across more regions and models to support mission
critical production SLAs.
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Changelog last updated March 2026