multimodal AI
3 picks we've reviewed.
GPT-5.6
OpenAI's next flagship after GPT-5 — announced June 26, 2026 as a preview and generally available since July 9, 2026 in three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) with published per-token pricing.
Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's fourth-generation open-weight model family — five sizes from 2B to 31B, Apache 2.0 licensed, with the 12B Unified variant accepting text, image, audio, and video in a single encoder-free architecture.
MiniMax M3
MiniMax's third-generation flagship — M3 is an open-weight 428B-parameter MoE (~23B active per token) using MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), with a 1M-token context window and native multimodality (text, image, and video input). It's positioned as the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, a 1M context, and native multimodality — and can even operate a desktop computer.