Oracle Database 26ai

This is Part 3 — the final chapter in turning a text-only knowledge base into a fully vision-aware RAG system After moving CLIP embeddings into Oracle AI Database 26ai, I had something great: true multimodal search. Text queries found images. Images found related text. No OCR, no captions—just CLIP doing its magic in the database. But I quickly hit a wall. When I asked my knowledge management app: “What color is the car in this photo?” ...

After the 3-way LLM toggle went live, I turned my attention to embeddings - the invisible glue that powers search and RAG. Oracle OCI GenAI’s Cohere endpoint had been rock-solid in my testing: fast, reliable, and gave me 80 K token context. But every chunk still meant a network round-trip, and images were stuck behind OCR, so text-only embeddings meant photos, diagrams, and whiteboards were blind spots in my knowledge base. ...