AI models are advancing in processing multimodal data such as images, audio, video, and PDFs, enhancing system flexibility and intelligence.
LangChain is integrating multimodality into its stack, enabling chat models to describe images and potentially support audio/video search.
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Multimodality involves working with various types of input data beyond text, offering more natural interactions with AI models.
LangChain supports multimodal inputs in chat models for images and files, while embedding models and vector stores are evolving to support multimodality.
Currently, chat models in LangChain allow sending images and text in inputs, paving the way for more interactive and dynamic responses.
While chat models support multimodal inputs, outputs are mostly text-based, with some exceptions like audio outputs in certain models.
Embedding models in LangChain focus on text embeddings, with plans to extend support to multimedia embeddings for tasks like image and audio search.
Vector stores in LangChain cater predominantly to text-based embeddings, but future plans involve supporting image, audio, and video embeddings.
Developers can start experimenting with multimodal workflows by using external tools for generating embeddings until LangChain fully integrates multimodal support.