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Before you start this tutorial, you need a Google Cloud account and a
Google Cloud project that's enabled for billing. The following steps walk you
through creating these prerequisites.
A Google Cloud project ID is a unique string used to differentiate your
project from all others in Google Cloud. You use your Google Cloud project
ID in this tutorial to initialize the Vertex AI SDK for Python. If you know your
Google Cloud project ID, you can skip this step.
To locate your Google Cloud project ID:
In the Google Cloud console, click the list of projects in the top menu.
In the dialog that appears, locate your project. If you don't see your
project, you might need to choose a different
organization. Select
No organization to view projects that aren't associated with an
organization or that are associated with an organization that you don't have
access to view.
To find a Google Cloud project that you haven't accessed recently, you
might need to click All instead of Recent or Starred.
After you locate your project, make a note of its Google Cloud project ID
in the ID column.
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