Glossary · Phase 1 · Building with LLMs
Base64
A way to write any file, such as an image, as plain text so it can travel inside a JSON request. It makes the data about a third bigger.
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An image is just another kind of block in the same message.
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Images and documents · Send screenshots, PDFs and charts as input. About 25 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- content block: One piece of a message sent to a model, such as a stretch of text, an image or a PDF. A message can hold several.
- multimodal: Able to work with more than text, such as images, documents or audio.
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