AI that understands and generates across multiple data types: text, image, audio, and video.
Multimodal AI refers to models and tools that can process and generate across multiple media types in a unified system. GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Ultra, and Claude 3 are leading multimodal models. The shift to multimodal is reshaping the AI tool market: single-modal tools (text-only writers, image-only generators) are losing market share at 2× the rate as users consolidate to fewer, more capable tools. Multimodal tools now represent 61% of new AI tool launches in 2026, up from 21% in 2025.
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