Why Haven't Omni-Modal Models Gone Mainstream?
giffmana · x · 2026-07-14
The author argues that true "any-to-any" omni-modal models have not yet become a major industry focus.
Key points include:
- Building an "80% good enough" multimodal model is relatively easy, but difficult to achieve without sacrificing individual modality capabilities.
- For many users, it's not a worthwhile trade-off if a coding model's performance drops by 20% just to gain video generation capabilities.
- Currently, Google is one of the few labs consistently releasing such omni-modal models; OpenAI leans towards selective multimodality, while Anthropic basically lacks multimodal output.
- Open-weight models also have highly fragmented roadmaps in this area.
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