Before this change, the generation input was sent to the backend as a
single string, encoding images as Base64 and packing them in
Markdown-style links.
This change adds a new chunked input representation that separates text
chunks from images chunks. Image chunks contain binary data (for smaller
message sizes) and the image's MIME type.
The stringly-typed inputs are still sent to support backends that do not
support chunked inputs yet.
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