Multimodal is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 6 linked articles.
YC S22-backed Poly aims to replace traditional file explorers with AI-powered, cross-platform search and an agent, offering a 100GB free tier and 2TB for $10/month (plus small per-GB charges) and a public waitlist/demo.
Gemma 4 12B claims a unified, encoder-free multimodal model.
Thinking Machines unveils 'Interaction Models'—a real-time, multimodal, two-model architecture with 200ms micro-turns and encoder-free fusion, aiming to embed interactivity directly into the model and benchmarked against multiple rivals.
A technical blog post shows a 16% throughput and ~11% end-to-end latency improvement in multimodal inference by caching CUDA IPC pool handles in a Python dict, reducing host-side overhead in SGLang.
Parlor demonstrates real-time, on-device AI on Apple M3 Pro using Gemma 4 E2B and Kokoro TTS with end-to-end latency ~2.5–3.0s and ~2.6 GB model size, highlighting low server reliance and open-source licensing.
Recall is an open-source, local multimodal memory search that stores vectors on-device using Gemini Embedding 2 and ChromaDB, with a setup wizard and Raycast UI, and optional Google embedding API calls.
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