In Q3 2024, 72% of production RAG pipelines failed to meet p99 latency SLAs for multimodal queries, according to a Datadog survey of 1,200 engineering teams. Most blamed fragmented toolchains for text and image retrieval—until Stable Diffusion 3.0’s embedding API and Llama 4’s 1M-token context window changed the game. This is the definitive guide to building unified multimodal RAG pipelines that c
TL;DR: Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128B open-weight model released April 29, 2026, with a 256K context window, configurable reasoning, and native multimodal input. It scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified — close but not ahead of Claude Sonnet 4.6 — and ships alongside Vibe, a cloud coding agent that submits pull requests directly to GitHub without you babysitting it. API pricing is $1.50 per million inp