Vertex Core is a specialized AI software-engineering model developed by Vertex Coders LLC. It is based on Google's Gemma 2 9B IT and fine-tuned using LoRA/QLoRA techniques to improve its behavior for software-engineering workflows, code generation, code modification, debugging, security-oriented code analysis, and tool-oriented development tasks. Vertex Core is designed to serve as the coding and reasoning core of agentic software-engineering systems. Vertex Core is under active development. Vertex Core is intended for applications involving: The model is particularly intended to operate as part of an agentic system where the surrounding application provides access to repositories, files…