A multimodal model is an ML (machine learning) model that is capable of processing information from different modalities, including images, videos, and text. For example, Google's multimodal model, Gemini, can receive a photo of a plate of cookies and generate a written recipe as a response and vice versa. Generative AI is an umbrella term for the use of ML models to create new content, like text, images, music, audio, and videos typically from a prompt of a single type. Multimodal AI expands on these generative capabilities, processing information from multiple modalities, including images, videos, and text. Multimodality can be thought of as giving AI the ability to process and understand different sensory modes. Practically this means users are not limited to one input and one output type and can prompt a model with virtually any input to generate virtually any content type.