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Today, we are expanding the Gemini API’s File Search tool. You can now build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems with multimodal data and custom metadata. We’re also introducing page citations to improve grounding and transparency.

Whether you are prototyping a weekend project or scaling a production application for thousands of users, your RAG systems can now natively process and better organize your text and visual data.

Give your apps a photographic memory

File Search now processes images and text together. Powered by the Gemini Embedding 2 model, the tool understands native image data, providing your agents contextual awareness.

Think of a creative agency trying to dig up a specific visual asset.…