Question

A retail company wants to build a customer-facing mobile app that uses a Gemini model to answer product questions, and they need programmatic API access, the ability to tune the model on their catalog, and control over deployment. A leader suggests they simply buy Gemini for Google Workspace licenses to accomplish this. Why is this recommendation inappropriate for their goal?

Accepted Answer

Gemini for Google Workspace enhances productivity apps like Gmail and Docs for internal users, not building custom applications; Vertex AI is the platform for programmatic access, tuning, and deployment.

Answer

Gemini for Google Workspace cannot access Gemini models at all, so it would return no useful responses to product questions.

Answer

Gemini for Google Workspace is more expensive per user than Vertex AI, making it the wrong financial choice for this project.

Answer

Gemini for Google Workspace only supports text summarization and cannot answer any customer questions.