Multimodal AI
AI that can understand and work with more than one type of input — text, images, audio, or video — not just text.
01 Definition
A multimodal AI model can process and reason across multiple types of content in the same conversation: reading an image and answering questions about it, listening to audio, or generating an image from a text description, rather than being limited to text-only input and output.
02 Why It Matters
This is why you can now upload a photo or screenshot to a chatbot and ask about it, or generate an image from a written description — capabilities that older, text-only AI models didn't have.
03 Example
Uploading a photo of a broken appliance and asking Gemini or ChatGPT what the problem might be.