Multimodal / vision-language models
Multimodal / vision-language models covers models that take images/video/audio plus text (VLMs and omni models).
In brief
Multimodal / vision-language models, in brief.
What it isMultimodal / vision-language models covers models that take images/video/audio plus text (VLMs and omni models).
Where it sitsOne of 24 categories in the Models layer. Models are the trained systems that do the work: language models, and models for speech, images, video, code, translation and forecasting. This layer covers both closed models reached through an API and open models you can download.
What we track30 products, including Amazon Nova (Lite/Pro/Premier), Aya Vision, Claude (vision), DeepSeek-VL2 and ERNIE 4.5 VL.
The products
30 products in Multimodal / vision-language models.
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Questions
Multimodal / vision-language models, answered.
What is Multimodal / vision-language models in AI infrastructure?Multimodal / vision-language models covers models that take images/video/audio plus text (VLMs and omni models).
Which layer of AI infrastructure is Multimodal / vision-language models in?Multimodal / vision-language models is in the Models layer. Models are the trained systems that do the work: language models, and models for speech, images, video, code, translation and forecasting. This layer covers both closed models reached through an API and open models you can download.
Which products are in Multimodal / vision-language models?We track 30 products in Multimodal / vision-language models, including Amazon Nova (Lite/Pro/Premier), Aya Vision, Claude (vision), DeepSeek-VL2, ERNIE 4.5 VL, FastVLM, Florence-2 and Gemini (native multimodal). The full list is on this page.
Models
The other categories in Models.
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