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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Meta has decided to not offer its upcoming multimodal AI model and future versions to customers in the European Union citing a lack of clarity from European regulators, according to a statement given ...

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 ...

When researchers at Tsinghua University and other institutions built MMMU-Pro, they designed it to be nearly impossible to ...

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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 ...

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 ...