Multimodal AI systems aim to integrate text and vision for seamless human-AI communication in various tasks like image captioning and style transfers.Challenges arise with separate models handling different modalities, leading to incoherence and scalability issues.Research focuses on unifying models for accurate interpretation and generation in a combined text and vision context.Inclusion AI, Ant Group introduced Ming-Lite-Uni, an open-source framework uniting text and vision via an autoregressive multimodal structure.Ming-Lite-Uni uses multi-scale learnable tokens and alignment strategies for coherence in image and text processing.Model compresses visual inputs into token sequences across multiple scales for detailed image reconstruction.It maintains a frozen language model and fine-tunes the image generator, leading to more efficient updates and scaling.The system excelled in tasks like text-to-image generation, style transfer, and image editing with contextual fluency and high fidelity.Training on over 2.25 billion samples from diverse datasets enhanced the model's visual output and aesthetic assessment accuracy.Ming-Lite-Uni's approach bridges language understanding and image generation, offering a significant advancement in multimodal AI systems.