"Multimodal model" distinction becomes useless in deployment, similar to "reasoning model"
cephaloform · x · 2026-08-21
Opinion suggests that in current deployment practices, the distinction of "multimodal model" is becoming just as useless as "reasoning model". This may imply a convergence of model capabilities or that such labeled distinctions are no longer relevant in deployment.
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