Manzano combines visual understanding and text-to-image generation, while significantly reducing performance or quality trade-offs.

Apple's researchers continue to focus on multimodal LLMs, with studies exploring their use for image generation, ...

Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency. The first addition is the text-only ...

Sept. 9, 2024 — Forty percent of generative AI (GenAI) solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023, according to Gartner, Inc. This shift from individual to ...

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 ...

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Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental AI Research team is going head-to-head with OpenAI yet again, unveiling a new open-source multimodal large language model called Spirit LM that can handle both text ...

Images are now parsed like language. OCR, visual context and pixel-level quality shape how AI systems interpret and surface content.

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into multimodal systems that can handle text, images, voice and code, they’re also becoming powerful orchestrators of external tools and connectors. With this ...