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Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
- WindyBolt907 6mo ago[dead]
- FrequentLurker 6mo agoThis might be great and all but I am still miffed at how simple search on AI Studio is. You can only search the titles of your conversations and nothing inside them. On top of that they messed with the scrolling so Ctrl+F doesn't work reliably.
- greesil 6mo agoToo bad they can't just easily vibe code new features.
- bloqs 6mo agoYeah, what happened to no more SWE
- telotortium 6mo agoIronically, they probably could if they used Codex or Claude Code. Those harnesses and models are good enough to do that these days (since late last year, and getting better since then). However, it seems that DeepMind and no one else at Google has access to either of these.
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- stingraycharles 6mo agoYeah, it’s surprising, Claude Desktop has had project files since decades which are chunked/indexed and automatically injected into your context based on the topic. You’d think this would be fairly obvious for Google to do, but it’s probably an organizational problem rather than a technical one.
- pants2 6mo agoIt's incredible how far behind Gemini has gotten, both the product and the model. Even the ChatGPT plugin for Google Sheets blows away the native Gemini integration. Everyone thought Google was pulling ahead with Gemini 3. For a minute there they had the best language model, image model, AND video model in the world. But it's like they decided to pull over for a nap while OpenAI and Anthropic flew by.
- wilj 6mo agoI just cancelled my Gemini subscription yesterday. I have a big private fork of OpenCode, and I did it the wrong way to start with, so I couldn't pull from upstream. So I put together a plan for refactoring it, step by step, with tests, etc. After literally 8 solid days of fighting with Gemini 3 Pro, I still couldn't pull it off. I gave GPT 5.5 a chance with the same prompt, plans, and repo. I'm not sure how long it took, but when I checked in on it a few hours later it was done. All tests passed, everything exactly how I'd asked, and better (it made some improvements).
- comboy 6mo ago3.1-pro is still very capable, and API is at competitive price vs e.g. Anthropic, they just can't seem to figure out RLHF and harness. It needs a lot of guiding, it tends to be lazy and poorly sticking to instructions by default. It just feels like many google products really, they are capable of really amazing things, it's just that nobody there seem to care. I would guess they are likely optimizing more for internal use than their vast userbase.
- logicchains 6mo agoThey optimize for making their SRE's lives easier, over quantizing models regardless of how negative an effect that has on the user.
- thefounder 6mo agoI never felt Gemini was ever better than the OpenAI or Anthropic. I think it’s more on par with open source models than the top 2
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- qingcharles 6mo agoI've come across a few weird search issues like this with Google lately. Entire company built on the best search engine ever created; can't do search properly in their apps.
- sega_sai 6mo agoThe search in Gemini app in the browser is so embarrassingly bad that I get an impression that nobody of importance in Google must be using it otherwise they would have fixed long ago.
- varispeed 6mo agoI am more miffed that you cannot delete conversations.
- buggyipadmettoo 6mo agoI built a solution for this (in 20 mins with the help of Gemini!). 1. use Google App Scripts to duplicate all the convos saved in your google drive to another folder, and append each ".txt". Mine runs every day. 2. enable API in google cloud console, install google-api-python-client on desktop,then created a workflow in Alfred to search from desktop. Now I can search my AI Studio convos + content just as fast as any other file on my desktop : )
- Owen_Silva 6mo ago[flagged]
- trilogic 6mo agoGood to have a choice between clouds and local use. How much would you pay to have this yours forever, running locally, GDPR and HIPaa compliant, without the headache of privacy or subscriptions. That´s what we offer with HugstonOne and we did it before Google. Multimodal, Lighting fast RAG, terabytes not kilobytes only :) All you need is a 32gb ram laptop and HugstonOne, not a rocket science.
- zafronix 6mo ago[flagged]
- FirstPoint 6mo agoIt’s a striking irony that the world's leader in search is receiving so much heat for poor search functionality and UX within its own flagship AI products
- WarmWash 6mo agoOne of Googles core problems is internal silos of talent. The search team has likely never interacted with the Gemini app team or perhaps even the Gemini app. For all intents and purposes Google Gemini is a totally separate company from Google search.
- kyrra 6mo agoGoogle has ~190k employees. You can't have total collaboration across that many people. Teams will cross collaborate, but they have to be for specific projects with specific people.
- Alifatisk 6mo ago[dead]
- immanuwell 6mo ago[dead]
- lousken 6mo agoHaven't touched gemini api since they did not support having a $ limit per api key. Is it possible now?
- jwithington 6mo agoYes https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#spend-caps https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#spend-caps
- lousken 6mo agoFinally!
- algoth1 6mo agoWith a 10min delay, via aistudio
- ecommerceguy 6mo agoMy free trial ends this week, which i'm obviously canceling.
- WindyBolt907 6mo ago[dead]
- deferredgrant 6mo ago[flagged]
- ninjagoo 6mo agoIs anyone tech-savvy going to actually let any tool with this backend run on their personal PCs? Any app with this behind the scenes is a non-starter for me. And anyone think that all those folks ditching Win11 will be going for or recommending any app built on this?
- thawab 6mo agoTried multiple times to use the api file search and it’s complex to setup. Ended up going a different approach.
- CalmBirch127 6mo ago[dead]
- HollowRidge427 6mo ago[dead]
- noashavit 6mo agoThe race for unstructured data continues. It feels like everyone is trying to crack unstructured data extraction with the underlying goal of ultimately using AI to classify and tag insights from unstructured data to create a structured data/graphs for agents to consume and traverse.
- paidwork 6mo ago[dead]