AI Researcher Reflects: Multimodal LLMs Became Default, Faster Than Expected
mervenoyann · x · 2026-08-14
Researcher mervenoyann looks back at talks two years ago on early vision to multimodal pipelines, marveling at DINOv2's label-free distillation. He predicted LLMs would default to multimodal, which happened this year, but faster than expected.
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