Deeplearning.ai text-embedding model error for “textembedding-gecko@001” requires You to simply change it to another one. Instead of the original pretrained models we should use the newer ones. Those models are succeeding the gecko series in Vertex AI.​ Google Vertex AI Options OpenAI Options Those are just some of the available models. Usage Comparison Model Provider Dims Max Tokens Best For text-embedding-005 Google 768 2048 English/code ​ gemini-embedding-001 Google 3072 Varies High quality ​ text-embedding-3-small OpenAI 1536 8191 General/RAG Summary Once upon a time, and still we can find many many things thanks to start overflow and people willing to share knowledge… let us hope the next time you google something…