RAG — Retrieval-augmented generation — fetching relevant documents first and pasting them into the model's context so it answers from your data instead of memory.
embedding — A list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.
multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
Why it matters
Generic image embeddingA list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.Full definition → can separate a cat from a dog but not two tables in a financial report; converting charts and tables to markdown before indexing is a workable route to retrieval over multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition → documents.
