AI2026-05-17

Multimodal

Also known as: Multimodal AI / マルチモーダルAI / Multimodal Model

An AI model or system that handles multiple modalities — text, images, audio, and video — within a single architecture. GPT-4o and Gemini are representative examples.

Overview

Multimodal models process and generate content across multiple data types within a single model. Before GPT-4o and Gemini, separate specialist models were required for text, images, and audio. Now a single model can accept a screenshot alongside code and an error log to assist debugging, or generate product descriptions directly from photos.

Business applications

Automated product-image captioning, invoice OCR, equipment anomaly detection combining images and sensor data, and video summarization are practical use cases enabled by multimodal systems.

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