AI Dictionary

Multimodal & Creative

Glossary of AI concepts, explained simply

4 concepts

4 concepts

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Intermediate

Multimodal & Creative

VLM (vision-language model)

A vision-language model (VLM) is an AI model that can look at images such as photos, scans or charts and answer questions about them in text.

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Beginner

Multimodal & Creative

Multimodal AI

Multimodal AI works with more than one kind of information, such as text, photos, speech and video, so you can show or tell it something instead of only typing.

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Beginner

Multimodal & Creative

Speech AI

Speech AI turns speech into text and text into speech, so a business can transcribe meetings and calls or let a computer answer in a natural-sounding voice.

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Beginner

Multimodal & Creative

Text-to-image generation

Text-to-image generation lets an AI model make a new image from a written description; the tool's terms decide what your business may do with it.