File Search now embeds and searches images; visual citations added
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- Updated File Search to support multimodal search. You can now natively embed and search through images using the
gemini-embedding-2model. Grounding metadata now includesmedia_idfor visual citations andpage_numbersthat indicate where information is found. To learn more, see the File Search guide.
Fetched July 4, 2026
