
Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 for Multimodal AI
Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.
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Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.

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