multimodal
adjective
mul·ti·mod·al
ˌməl-tē-ˈmō-dᵊl 
-ˌtī-
: having or involving several modes, modalities, or maxima
multimodal distributions
multimodal therapy
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Marrying Business Impact With Economics While the industry has witnessed a proliferation of smaller, specialized AI models, significant AI chip innovation remains essential to deliver the performance requirements for supporting advanced reasoning and multimodal models.
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Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Transforming Healthcare With Connected Data The integration of connected and multimodal data has the potential to revolutionize both clinical and commercial outcomes in healthcare.
—Kirby Forlin, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
This approach ostensibly puts Llama 4 in direct competition with existing multimodal models from OpenAI (such as GPT-4o) and Google (Gemini 2.5).
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
Banani Mohapatra, the head of Walmart’s Subscription Product’s Analytics Fraud and Payment vertical, employs multimodal fusion techniques to combine insights gleaned from LLMs with transaction logs and metadata to identify suspicious behavior patterns in real-time.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Transforming Healthcare With Connected Data The integration of connected and multimodal data has the potential to revolutionize both clinical and commercial outcomes in healthcare.
—Kirby Forlin, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
This approach ostensibly puts Llama 4 in direct competition with existing multimodal models from OpenAI (such as GPT-4o) and Google (Gemini 2.5).
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
Banani Mohapatra, the head of Walmart’s Subscription Product’s Analytics Fraud and Payment vertical, employs multimodal fusion techniques to combine insights gleaned from LLMs with transaction logs and metadata to identify suspicious behavior patterns in real-time.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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multimodal
adjective
mul·ti·mo·dal
ˌməl-ti-ˈmōd-ᵊl
: relating to, having, or utilizing more than one mode or modality (as of stimulation or treatment)
multimodal cancer therapy involving surgery, immunotherapy, and radiation
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