ertex AI Model Garden UI displays rich model card information for publisher models (e.g. Google, Anthropic, OpenAI), including:
Display name
Overview / description
Tags (such as Text, Chat, Multimodal, etc.)
However, when using the public Vertex AI PublisherModel API (publishers.models.get / list via REST or PublisherModelServiceClient in Python), these fields are not present. The API response appears limited to structural and capability metadata such as:
name
open_source_category
supported_actions
frameworks
launch_stage / version_state
We have verified this behavior using both v1 and v1beta1 APIs and the google-cloud-aiplatform Python client.
Questions / clarification requested:
Is the Model Garden card metadata (display name, overview, tags) intentionally UI-only and not exposed via any public API?
Is there an alternative supported API or resource to programmatically retrieve this metadata?
Are there plans to expose this information through the PublisherModel API or a related endpoint?
This information is needed to programmatically inventory and classify Model Garden models without relying on the UI.