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Category: Emerging Concepts
Multimodal AI processes different types of input - text, images, audio, video - in a single system.
Instead of separate models for each content type, multimodal AI understands connections between them. It can describe images, generate pictures from text, or answer questions about videos.
The AI learns that certain words relate to visual concepts or sounds.
Multimodal AI creates more natural interactions. You can show it a picture and ask questions, or describe something and get an image.
This moves AI closer to human-like understanding that naturally combines different senses.
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