Building an AI Vision Search Engine with MySQL HeatWave GenAI
Modern AI systems increasingly rely on multimodal data: text, images, documents, audio, and video. Among these modalities, image understanding has become one of the most important capabilities for AI-powered applications.
Traditionally, implementing these capabilities required specialized computer vision infrastructure, external vector databases, custom ML pipelines, and multiple frameworks.
With MySQL HeatWave GenAI, many of these capabilities can now be implemented directly inside SQL workflows using built-in AI routines.
In this article, we will build the foundations of a Vision Model Evaluation Assistant using MySQL HeatWave GenAI. The objective is not to create another image classifier, but rather a semantic image understanding platform.