In beta now in the U.S., “multisearch” lets Google use text as added context for an image search.

The added multi-modal input feature will generate text outputs — whether that's natural language, programming code, or what have you — based on a wide variety of mixed text and image inputs.

On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ ...