Gradio is the easiest way to build delightful machine learning web apps. Version 4.0 is Gradio's biggest update so far, and comes with many new features that make Gradio more extensible and customizable than ever before! One of those features is the ability to build your own custom Gradio component 🔥🤯

In this live coding session, Freddy from the Gradio team at HuggingFace, will show you how you can make your own Multimodal Chatbot component that interleaves text with audio, video, and images!

You will learn:
* How to bootstrap your custom component project with the gradio cli
* How to implement a Gradio Chatbot component's backend in python
* How to implement a Gradio Chatbot component's frontend in Svelte
* How to launch the gradio component development server to instantly test your changes
* How to publish your component to PyPi and HuggingFace spaces from the command line!

In part 2 of this series, we will build a custom multimodal textbox component to send text and files to our chatbot so stay tuned!