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Multimodal RAG: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and What Actually Works in Production

Vishesh S. / May 18, 2026

This article assumes you already know what RAG is, why naive RAG breaks at scale, and what chunking, embedding, and retrieval mean. We skip the basics.The Problem with Text-Only RAG at ScaleStandard RAG pipelines assume your knowledge base is text. Tha…

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Your Multimodal RAG Pipeline Should Look at Images Twice

Akshay Kalane / March 31, 2026

Once at ingestion to make them findable. Again at retrieval to actually answer the question.Here’s the standard advice for building a multimodal RAG system: take your PDF, extract images, run them through a vision model, store the summaries as text chu…