Weaviate Guide: Multimodal RAG Skips Text Bottleneck with Gemini
eshorten300 · x · 2026-08-26
Weaviate released a practical guide on multimodal embeddings and RAG, highlighting the 'text-shaped bottleneck' of traditional RAG where transcripts lose tone and OCR mangles layouts. By integrating Google DeepMind's Gemini Embedding 2, Weaviate enables native multimodal RAG, embedding text, images, audio, and video into a single shared vector space. This allows a single query to retrieve a PDF page, an audio chunk, or a specific moment in a video, preserving meaning lost in text conversion. The post includes runnable code examples and three real-world system build scenarios.
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