Multimodal AI fuses signals that used to need separate systems, so a single model can watch a clip and answer questions about it in words. It is the basis of video understanding, visual search, and assistants that 'see' as well as read.
The book · Volume 6 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
Multimodal AI lets one model watch a clip and answer in words, which replaces several single-purpose systems but changes the cost profile. This volume covers multimodal AI in detail: vision-language models, frame sampling, speech and ASR, and search and RAG over a video archive. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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