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.

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.