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Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

Gemini API just went multimodal. File search now handles images, PDFs, and video—changing how developers build RAG.

Reporting by Hacker News 1 min brief
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Google expands Gemini API capabilities with multimodal file search, enabling developers to build retrieval-augmented generation systems that work across text, images, video, and documents. This lowers the barrier to building sophisticated AI applications and directly competes with similar RAG offerings from competitors.

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  1. Gemini API File Search now supports multimodal inputs

  2. RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) functionality expanded

  3. Support for images, PDFs, and video documents

  4. Published May 10, 2026

  5. Developer-facing feature rollout

  6. Blog post from Google AI official channels

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