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Multimodal Models

AI models that process multiple types of data, text, images, audio, video, simultaneously. Today's frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all natively multimodal; text-only models are the exception, not the rule.

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Cross-modal attentionVision-languageContrastive learningCLIP

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