multimodal
adjective
mul·ti·mod·al
ˌməl-tē-ˈmō-dᵊl 
-ˌtī-
: having or involving several modes, modalities, or maxima
multimodal distributions
multimodal therapy
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Perhaps that’s why the researchers are now trying to create embodied multimodal AIs that can take in not just text, but sights, sounds, touch, and movement.
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Vox Staff, Vox, 3 June 2024
The model is natively multimodal—trained to take in voice and then produce voice, for example—as opposed to taking in the user’s voice, turning it into text that is fed to GPT-4 to create a prompt, and then feeding the resulting output to a text-to-speech model to produce a voice response.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 May 2024
The announcements came a day after OpenAI revealed its newest multimodal AI chatbot, ChatGPT-4o.
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—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 17 May 2024
Companies can upskill their data engineers, for example, to learn multimodal processing and vector database management, while data scientists can develop prompt engineering and bias detection skills.
—Byrodney Zemmel, Fortune, 15 May 2024
Outside of Gemini’s new multimodal capabilities, the most interesting part of the keynote for creators and artists involved the introduction of Veo, Google DeepMind’s generative video model.
—Damien Scott, Billboard, 15 May 2024
The DeepMind team is still researching how best to bring multimodal models together and how to balance ultra-huge general models with smaller and more focused ones.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 14 May 2024
OpenAI has reportedly created a new multimodal AI model that is capable of recognizing objects and picking up on your mood.
—Emily Price, PCMAG, 11 May 2024
Lastly, Meta rolled out an early access program for its multimodal AI back in December.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2024
Vox Staff, Vox, 3 June 2024
The model is natively multimodal—trained to take in voice and then produce voice, for example—as opposed to taking in the user’s voice, turning it into text that is fed to GPT-4 to create a prompt, and then feeding the resulting output to a text-to-speech model to produce a voice response.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 May 2024
The announcements came a day after OpenAI revealed its newest multimodal AI chatbot, ChatGPT-4o.
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Our free, fast, and fun briefing on the global economy, delivered every weekday morning.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 17 May 2024
Companies can upskill their data engineers, for example, to learn multimodal processing and vector database management, while data scientists can develop prompt engineering and bias detection skills.
—Byrodney Zemmel, Fortune, 15 May 2024
Outside of Gemini’s new multimodal capabilities, the most interesting part of the keynote for creators and artists involved the introduction of Veo, Google DeepMind’s generative video model.
—Damien Scott, Billboard, 15 May 2024
The DeepMind team is still researching how best to bring multimodal models together and how to balance ultra-huge general models with smaller and more focused ones.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 14 May 2024
OpenAI has reportedly created a new multimodal AI model that is capable of recognizing objects and picking up on your mood.
—Emily Price, PCMAG, 11 May 2024
Lastly, Meta rolled out an early access program for its multimodal AI back in December.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2024
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multimodal
adjective
mul·ti·mo·dal
ˌməl-ti-ˈmōd-ᵊl
: relating to, having, or utilizing more than one mode or modality (as of stimulation or treatment)
multimodal cancer therapy involving surgery, immunotherapy, and radiation
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