Multimodality in AI: The Fusion of Text, Images, and Audio

The human experience is multimodal; we process information through a combination of sight, sound, and language. The next generation of AI is learning to do the same. This article explores the exciting field of multimodal AI, focusing on models like Google's Gemini that can seamlessly understand and reason across text, images, audio, and video. We delve into the technical challenges of fusing these different data types and showcase the incredible new capabilities that multimodality unlocks—from analyzing complex diagrams to generating video from a text prompt. The future of AI is not just about language or vision, but the powerful fusion of all of them.