Seeing Like Gemini: Building Vision Applications with Google’s Multimodal Models

Google's Gemini 3 has been released, showcasing impressive multimodal capabilities that integrate vision, text, and audio processing from the outset, unlike other models that attach vision encoders onto language models. Utilizing a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformer architecture, Gemini processes images and videos in a unified high-dimensional space, allowing it to understand and analyze complex visual tasks such as video analysis, image understanding, and structured data extraction. The model's design, featuring interleaved tokenization and a massive context window, enables it to handle extensive data efficiently, including high-resolution images and extended video content. Gemini's ability to align internal representations with human conceptual hierarchies enhances its reasoning skills, making it adept at tasks like "odd-one-out" reasoning. The model's API simplifies the deployment of its capabilities, providing structured outputs like JSON for easy integration into analytics pipelines. With applications ranging from real-time video coaching to structured data extraction from visual documents, Gemini represents a significant advancement in AI's ability to process and understand multimodal information in a cohesive manner.