Meaning "multiple modes," multimodal AI is an AI model that generates two or more types of content such as text and images, images and video or text and programming code.
Multimodal vs. Multi-model AI
Whereas multimodal (
moh-dal) supports different kinds of content, multi-model (
mah-del) means working with more than one language model (LLM) from a single user interface. Both terms may or may not use dashes in their spelling. See
multi-model AI platform and
AI model.