Multi-Modal AI: From Text to Vision and Beyond — The Unified Future The Single-Modality Limit For years, AI models were single-modality — text-only, image-only, or audio-only. This created silos: A text model cannot see images An image model cannot hear audio Each modality required separate training The problem : Real-world understanding is inherently multi-modal. The Breakthrough: Unified Encoders Modern multi-modal models use a shared l...