">[Vertex AI PaLM API](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/learn/overview) is a service on Google Cloud exposing the embedding models. \n",
"\n",
"Note: This integration is seperate from the Google PaLM integration.\n",
"By default, Google Cloud [does not use](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/data-governance#foundation_model_development) Customer Data to train its foundation models as part of Google Cloud`s AI/ML Privacy Commitment. More details about how Google processes data can also be found in [Google's Customer Data Processing Addendum (CDPA)](https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-addendum).\n",
"To use Vertex AI PaLM you must have the `google-cloud-aiplatform` Python package installed and either:\n",
"- Have credentials configured for your environment (gcloud, workload identity, etc...)\n",
"- Store the path to a service account JSON file as the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable\n",
"\n",
"This codebase uses the `google.auth` library which first looks for the application credentials variable mentioned above, and then looks for system-level auth.\n",