2 features hooked up to check out Gemma 4 1. does vision powered photo search and describes images 2. you can put in search criteria , it will scan the folder , and provide the images that match How we connect to Gemma 4: 1. GCP Project — created

gemma4-smart-gallery

on Google Cloud 2. Vertex AI MaaS — Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is hosted by Google as a managed API service, confirmed in Model Garden 3. Auth —

gcloud auth application-default login

provides credentials locally via Application Default Credentials (ADC) 4. SDK —

google-genai

(Google's modern Python SDK), initialized with: 5. 6.

genai.Client(vertexai=True, project=GCP_PROJECT, location="global")

7. Model ID —

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-maas

8. Vision call — image bytes encoded via

Part.from_bytes()

, sent alongside a text prompt in a single

generate_content()

call