AI Glossary

Multimodal

Able to take in or produce more than one kind of data, such as text, images, audio and video. A multimodal model can, for example, describe a photo or answer a question about a chart.

See also

  • Generative AI

    AI that produces new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, modeled on the data it learned from and usually in response to a prompt.

  • Foundation model

    A large model trained on broad data that can be adapted to many different tasks, like the models behind chat assistants.

Source: Yin et al., A Survey on Multimodal Large Language Models (2023) (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, Multimodal (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/multimodal

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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