The Gemini API File Search tool now supports natively multimodal RAG with Embedding 2, inline citations, and custom metadata filters.
You Could Build Your Own Vector Search Stack. You Probably Shouldn’t.
Vertex AI Vector Search 2.0 went GA in March 2026. For ISVs building on Google Cloud, it collapses embedding pipelines, indexing, feature stores, and hybrid search into one managed service, so you can ship AI features instead of building infrastructure.