Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's managed machine learning platform that provides experiment tracking, training jobs, pipelines, a model registry, and model serving as hosted services within the GCP ecosystem. It abstracts infrastructure management but ties teams to GCP-specific APIs, per-use compute billing, and Google's tooling. Kubeflow is an open-source platform built on Kubernetes that provides self-hosted alternatives to Google Vertex AI features through modular machine learning compone...