Unable to create model in bigquery

[g-kannan]

Hi All,

i'm trying to create a model to use bigquery AI functions, but getting below error. Please help

query: 

CREATE OR REPLACE MODEL

`project_id.southds.gen_ai_poc`

REMOTE WITH CONNECTION `projects/project_id/locations/asia-south1/connections/vertex_asia`

OPTIONS (ENDPOINT = 'gemini-1.5-pro-001');

region: asia-south1

model: 

gemini-1.5-pro-001

Error:

Not found: Publisher Model `projects/project-id/locations/asia-south1/publishers/google/models/gemini-1.5-pro-001` was not found or your project does not have access to it. Please ensure you are using a valid model version. For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versions