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Vision-language model

A model that understands images together with text, answering questions about photos, charts, screenshots or documents.

Most frontier chat models are now vision-language models. They can read a scanned invoice, describe a diagram or reason about a screenshot, though fine detail and exact numbers still need checking.

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What does Vision-language model mean?

A model that understands images together with text, answering questions about photos, charts, screenshots or documents. Most frontier chat models are now vision-language models. They can read a scanned invoice, describe a diagram or reason about a screenshot, though fine detail and exact numbers still need checking.