BioPharma Dive

The next frontier: Advancing foundation models with multimodal data

What's possible when AI models can learn from additional health data modalities to create a more complete understanding of ...

DeepSeek says its new multimodal model nears Anthropic’s Opus 4.8: Here’s how

DeepSeek just landed yet another punch in the arms race for AI's price/performance ratio – and this punch has eyes. Hangzhou-based company DeepSeek announced the release of the ...
VentureBeat

Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini

Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several ...
VentureBeat

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

Microsoft Corp. today released a hardware-efficient reasoning model, Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, that can process multimodal files such as scientific charts. The model is based on two existing ...