Google00:00Feature UpdatesOfficial Blog
Gemini API File Search goes multimodal for RAG
Build grounded RAG over image-rich docs with clearer citations.
Key Points
- 1File Search now supports multimodal data
- 2Custom metadata to tune retrieval
- 3Page-level citations for better grounding
Google expanded Gemini API File Search to support multimodal inputs (images + text), plus custom metadata and page-level citations. This improves grounded RAG systems that can cite sources. Data preparation and citation design will strongly affect quality.