Multimodal AI works across types of content at once: text, images, audio, video. A multimodal model can look at a chart and discuss it, or listen to speech and answer in writing — one system, several senses.
Real-world information is multimodal. Models that combine modalities unlock use cases pure text models cannot touch, from document understanding to video analysis.
Upload a photo of a broken error screen and ask what went wrong — a multimodal model reads the screenshot and explains it.