multimodal models

Large language models are moving in 2026 from bigger chatbots toward tool-using, self-checking, multimodal, sparsely activated systems that are increasingly embedded inside work software rather than accessed as standalone text boxes. The future is not one magic model that knows everything. It is...

Microsoft’s push to build its own cutting-edge AI models by 2027 marks one of the clearest signs yet that the company no longer wants to be defined as merely OpenAI’s biggest distributor. The strategy is not subtle: build frontier-scale compute, train state-of-the-art multimodal models, and...

Holi’s riot of color meets the new ritual of personalisation: this year, you can make a bespoke Holi greeting in minutes using modern AI image tools — whether you choose ChatGPT’s Images, Google’s Gemini (Nano Banana 2), or xAI’s Grok Imagine — and walk away with a shareable, high‑resolution...