The AI industry has long been dominated by text-based large language models (LLMs), but the future lies beyond the written word. Multimodal AI represents the next major wave in artificial intelligence ...

Building multimodal AI apps today is less about picking models and more about orchestration. By using a shared context layer for text, voice, and vision, developers can reduce glue code, route inputs ...

The AI revolution began with text. Large language models transformed how organizations process documents, generate content and automate communication. But the next wave of AI value comes from systems ...

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Technology has long promised to bring people closer together, yet so much of our digital life is flattened into a single pane of glass. Screens dominate our work, communication and entertainment. They ...

DeepSeek has released a series of open source multimodal AI models called Janus-Pro and JanusFlow respectively, Chinese media cited an AI community, Hugging Face. DeepSeek's prese ...

Microsoft has introduced a new AI model that, it says, can process speech, vision, and text locally on-device using less compute capacity than previous models. Innovation in generative artificial ...

French AI startup Mistral has dropped its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, capable of processing both images and text. The 12-billion-parameter model, built on Mistral’s existing text-based model ...

Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs.