TechCrunch

Meta’s Llama AI models now support images, too

Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Let me amend that phrase to reflect the current AI gold rush: Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and new AI models, ...
Forbes

Beyond Large Language Models: How Multimodal AI Is Unlocking Human-Like Intelligence

The AI industry has long been dominated by text-based large language models (LLMs), but the future lies beyond the written word. Multimodal AI represents the next major wave in artificial intelligence ...
MediaPost

Google Explains, Expands Gemini Models

Google has expanded its Gemini models, adding general availability for 2.5 Flash and Pro, and bringing custom versions into Search. It has also introduced 2.5 Flash-Lite. And while Google is churning ...
EurekAlert!

Beyond bigger models: How efficient multimodal AI is redefining the future of intelligence

A generalized architectural blueprint for building efficient MLLMs. This template achieves efficiency through a combination of component choices and data flow optimization. Key strategies include: (1) ...
Frontiers

Multimodal World Models, Embodiment, and Cognitive Amplification

Multimodal models and world models are emerging as promising frameworks for extending language-based AI beyond text, towards ...
TechCrunch

Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model

French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text. Called Pixtral 12B, the 12-billion-parameter model is about 24GB in size. Parameters roughly correspond ...
Nature

Multimodal large language models for bioimage analysis

Multimodal large language models have been recognized as a historical milestone in the field of artificial intelligence and have demonstrated revolutionary potentials not only in commercial ...
Bleeping Computer

OpenAI document explains when to use each ChatGPT model

OpenAI model names have been confusing, but the company is finally taking steps to make it easier for users to understand the different ChatGPT models. OpenAI quietly posted an article titled "ChatGPT ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

Microsoft Corp. today released a hardware-efficient reasoning model, Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, that can process multimodal files such as scientific charts. The model is based on two existing ...
SiliconANGLE

H2O.ai releases small language models for multimodal processing tasks

H2O.ai Inc. on Thursday introduced two small language models, Mississippi 2B and Mississippi 0.8B, that are optimized for multimodal tasks such as extracting text from scanned documents. The models ...
EurekAlert!

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

Cambridge, MA — In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its ...