Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
4 hours ago
- #RAG
- #multimodal
- #Gemini API
- Gemini API File Search tool has been expanded to support multimodal data and custom metadata for RAG systems.
- The tool now processes images and text together using the Gemini Embedding 2 model for contextual awareness.
- Custom metadata allows attaching key-value labels to unstructured data, enabling filtering to improve RAG workflow speed and accuracy.
- Page citations have been introduced, linking model responses to original sources like page numbers for verification and trust-building.
- File Search handles infrastructure, making it simple to upload files and search across them, as shown in provided code snippets.