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Google Announces Multimodal Updates to Gemini API File Search Tool

May 5, 2026
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Google Announces Multimodal Updates to Gemini API File Search Tool

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On May 5, 2026, Google released three enhancements to its Gemini API File Search tool, including multimodal support for processing images and text together alongside custom metadata filtering and page-level citations. These features enable developers to construct more efficient and verifiable retrieval-augmented generation systems by organizing unstructured data with greater precision and transparency.

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