06 · Language & Perception

Multimodal

Multiple data types, unified

A model handling more than one data type — text, images, audio, video — in a unified way. The clear trend: frontier models are increasingly multimodal by default rather than text-only.

Concrete example

Show a model a chart image and ask it to explain the trend in words — image in, text out.

Why it matters

The direction of travel: single models that see, hear, and read at once.