Meta's distilled avatar model and Google's price cut on Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash both make real-time and generated video cheaper to run at scale.
November 6, 2026 edition: Multimodal sector, 2 storiesMultimodal: latest AI analysis
Multimodal on AT Pulse covers image, audio & video. The desk has published 84 stories tagged Multimodal across 36 daily editions, from September 15, 2026 to November 13, 2026, citing 898 linked references. The most frequent original sources are r/AISEOInsider, The Verge · AI, and TechCrunch AI. Stories here most often overlap with Business, Models, and Agents.
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Camera and image AI is reaching products through bundles and labeling workflows. AT&T resells Google's Gemini camera features, and Google Research's Agile Deliberation turns user verdicts on borderline images into classifier prompts.
November 5, 2026 edition: Multimodal sector, 2 storiesVoice and world models are spreading: Gemini Notebook lets users talk to their own sources, and Genie 4 adds audio and longer scene consistency.
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9 of 84Newest Multimodal stories.
Agents
Maya site flagged by 48 AI agents in NASA lidar had already been mapped in a 2025 study
A Google researcher's multi-agent workflow flagged a hilltop Maya complex he called unmapped. Archaeologists showed it appeared in a 2025 regional lidar study.
Models🌐 Community pulse
DeepL announces Aure, a voice AI translation model it calls its most lifelike yet
DeepL has unveiled Aure, a voice AI translation model, describing it in a press release as its most lifelike voice translation model to date; further details are not stated.
Models
Google launches Gemini Decisions API, a multimodal model that returns probability-scored answers instead of text
Google's Gemini Decision 1 returns typed answers with probabilities instead of generated text.
Policy
Photography schools add AI modules and usage rules as Austrian students reject Midjourney as a main way to make images
Photography schools are adding AI training and usage rules, such as Spéos's ten-session module and CCS's documentation requirements.
Podcast · Agents
Handshake AI says frontier labs now buy expert-built agent environments, rubrics and preference data instead of simple labels
Handshake AI's team says frontier labs now pay domain experts to build simulated workplaces, grading rubrics and preference data for agent training.
Safety
US charges three men with using AI-cloned executive voices to steal $129 million from companies
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan allege three men used AI voice cloning, and sometimes fake video, to pose as CEOs and law-firm attorneys.
Models
Tencent launches Hy4, a 770B-parameter model with vision and computer use, and says open weights will follow
Tencent has released the full Hy4, a 770B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that adds visual understanding and computer use.
Multimodal
Meta opens Muse AI avatar video chat to all US adults
Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, now offers live voice calls and video chats with an animated avatar to US users aged 18 and over.
Models
Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second video clips and 30% lower price
Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, now generally available, extends generated video clips from 10 to 15 seconds, adds multi-turn editing and cuts 720p pricing to about $0.07 per second.
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75 moreEarlier Multimodal stories.
- AT&T adds Google's Gemini for Home camera AI to its Connected Life security serviceThe Verge · AI
- Google Research releases Agile Deliberation, a tool that turns user verdicts on borderline images into classifier promptsGoogle Research
- Realtime-Bench finds the best frontier model completes 44% of timed agent tasks; Google DeepMind previews Genie 4 world modelImport AI
- LLM 0.37 makes GPT-6 Luna the default model and adds GPT-6.1 Sol and TerraSimon Willison
- Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon for restricted testing, makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available and previews Genie 4Google AI
- OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra computer-use model as Google DeepMind previews Genie 4 world model with audior/EduAI
- Gemini Notebook adds real-time voice chat with users' own notes, rolling out first to paid mobile subscribersr/AISEOInsider
- Guardian report examines AI ghost-hunting apps like GhostTube SEER as paranormal researchers raise grief and copyright concernsThe Guardian · AI
- Creator demos Claude Code skill that builds scroll-driven 3D brand sites using Higgsfield video and Three.jsr/AISEOInsider
- IBM releases Granite Switch 4.1.1, retraining only its speech encoder and Decision adapter while leaving the base model unchangedHugging Face
- Guardian review pans Castle Walls, Ay Yapım's AI-generated Turkish series on Prime VideoThe Guardian · AI
- Grok Imagine releases first seven-minute episode of Musk's AI-made Odyssey, and critics pan itThe Guardian · AI
- Meta quietly tests Waddle World, an AI pet journal app, in the PhilippinesThe Verge · AI
- Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model adds real-time audio, live text steering and Gemini-guided planningTechCrunch AI
- Gemini 4 Argon Canvas Demo Turns Webcam Motion Into Musical Notesr/AISEOInsider
- YouTube creator says Claude Code skills run three automated video-editing workflowsr/AISEOInsider
- Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained Only on Recorded Conversationr/AISEOInsider
- Julian Goldie demos 'Hermes Apollo,' a paid voice dashboard built on Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent v0.20.0r/AISEOInsider
- Grok Imagine releases seven-minute first episode of its AI-generated 'Odyssey'TechCrunch AI
- Socceroo Cristian Volpato licenses his AI 'synthetic twin' to startup CallandorThe Guardian · AI
- Pennsylvania enacts law requiring labels on misleading AI-generated adsThe Verge · AI
- BBC's Blue Planet III keeps murky, unpolished footage to show audiences it was not made with AIThe Guardian · AI
- ElevenLabs Launches Eleven Realtime v1 Mini and Max Voice Agent Modelsr/AISEOInsider
- Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained only on recorded human conversationThe Verge · AI
- Google details its TB screening program: Nexus AI's X-ray tool reaches about 40 sites, and Indonesia adapts open MedGemma modelsGoogle Research
- Moshi, founded by an ex-J.P. Morgan trader, pitches a recommendation engine for commodity and energy tradersLatent Space
- Devi Sridhar questions Mass General Brigham's FAHR-Face model, which predicts cancer survival from facial photosThe Guardian · AI
- Simon Willison flags a pelican-on-a-bicycle cameo in De Staat's 'FREEDOM' music videoSimon Willison
- Show Lab's SolarRenderer turns layouts, depth maps and poses into realistic video in four steps, with code, weights and data releasedhuggingface.co
- Google's blind-sweep ultrasound AI matches expert sonographers on gestational age at a Nairobi test siteGoogle Research
- Julian Goldie's AI-avatar tutorial shows a Claude-run 'Agent OS' video studio that posts through Blotato's MCP server rather than a browser agentr/AISEOInsider
- Biohub's Alex Rives says better measurement is the key to virtual cell models as the Virtual Biology Initiative grows to $1.8BThe Cognitive Revolution
- Anthropic launches Claude Motion beta, which turns reports and charts into code-built MP4 animationsr/AISEOInsider
- Creator bundles Hermes Agent, Open Design and free OpenCode models into a members-only 'Agent OS' dashboardr/AISEOInsider
- SEO creator's AI avatar demos 'Hermes Apollo' voice agent, a rebranded Hermes Agent setup sold through a paid communityr/AISEOInsider
- Mark Wahlberg says he is open to an heir-controlled AI likeness and AI-enhanced stadium scenes for a Pete Rose filmTechCrunch AI
- Elorian launches Glimpse, a visual reasoning model priced far below GPT-6 AstraTechCrunch AI
- AI-generated photo of Mia Goth spreads from verified Instagram fan account to gossip blogs and Google's AI OverviewThe Verge · AI
- Paid AI community promotes Claude-based 'Agent OS' that scripts, edits and posts short videos through Blotator/AISEOInsider
- Julian Goldie's 'Hermes Apollo' adds a branded voice layer to Hermes Agent's Voice Mode inside a paid Agent OS bundler/AISEOInsider
- Creator uses GPT-6 Astra and the Blender MCP add-on to build walkable 3D scenes in Blenderr/AISEOInsider
- Google's Gemini Notebook adds voice chat with notes, an audio recorder, new quiz formats and 60-second video overviewsr/AISEOInsider
- Trump's photo of a restored White House column has an OpenAI watermark, according to Google's SynthID DetectorThe Verge · AI
- Amazon drops Sam Altman film Artificial, Neon sets Dec. 25 release as Musk, Facebook and Holmes films arriveThe Verge · AI
- Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition two days after launch and restores the 2011 originalThe Verge · AI
- NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B open multimodal model for enterprise agentsNVIDIA Generative AI
- Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for robotics; it ranks third of five on Artificial Analysis's real-arm benchmarkGoogle DeepMind
- Tutorial shows five ways to run Nous Research's Hermes Agent on free OpenRouter modelsr/AISEOInsider
- Google Labs launches Playground, a prompt-to-game platform for US adults, as Unity unveils Spark to integrate with itr/AISEOInsider
- Epic Games reportedly ends hand-written code and moves to AI-generated art on its delayed Disney shooterThe Verge · AI
- Google previews an enterprise Gemini agent and releases Nano Banana 2.1, EmbeddingGemma 2 and a public SynthID Detectorr/AISEOInsider
- Perplexity releases open pplx-embed-v2-late multimodal retrievers, with its 0.6B model topping the previous best on Q2D-Webr/AISEOInsider
- Jack Clark moves his recursive self-improvement forecast to 2027, citing the new TasteVal research-taste benchmarkImport AI
- Two studies find DeepSeek-OCR's image-based context compression relies on language priors and does no better than simple baselinesTwo Minute Papers
- Nikon disqualifies Small World in Motion winner for using generative AI on microscopy videoThe Verge · AI
- Google launches Keep Live, a Gemini voice feature that turns spoken brain dumps into structured notesr/AISEOInsider
- Google Rolls Out Keep Live, Letting Android Users Dictate and Edit Notes by Voicer/AISEOInsider
- ChatGPT's new Intelligent UI did not trigger on OpenAI's showcase prompts in a hands-on testr/AISEOInsider
- Liquid AI releases d1, a decision model that returns probabilities instead of text, adds vision and opens its weightsr/AISEOInsider
- Simon Willison builds a newsletter archive for his blog by talking to Codex while cooking dinnerSimon Willison
- Ben Affleck explains InterPositive, the AI post-production startup Netflix bought for about $587 millionTechCrunch AI
- Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, halving image-output token prices while raising input and text ratesr/AISEOInsider
- Mistral releases Large 4 'Le Chonk' preview, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model, with open weights planned for late Octoberr/AISEOInsider
- Hugging Face's ML Intern agent builds six niche models for about $103, including a 0.8B Qwen-Image prompt rewriter that runs on a CPUHugging Face
- Claude Opus 5.5 invents a music notation and browser synthesizer to compose adventure-game tracks for Simon Willison's Scrimshaw JukeboxSimon Willison
- OpenAI makes interactive charts, forms and tools the default in ChatGPT answers with GPT-6TechCrunch AI
- Liquid AI releases open-weight d1 decision models for edge devices; all benchmark results so far come from the companyHugging Face
- Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2, an Apache 2.0 multimodal embedding model small enough for phonesSimon Willison
- GPT-Live-1 narrowly tops Grok Voice on speech benchmark, but Gemini leads the tabler/AISEOInsider
- Jev voice-browser demo uses typed decisions and Playwright to act on partial speechr/AISEOInsider
- Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live pushes voice agents toward real-time, tool-using workflowsr/AISEOInsider
- Google pushes Gemini from chatbot to agent layer across Chrome, Search, Workspace and desktopr/AISEOInsider
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash targets long-context agent costs with new cache architectureTwo Minute Papers
- SimpliSafe’s new doorbell extends AI-filtered, human-monitored security to the front doorThe Verge · AI
- Speech recognition remains deployment-dependent as Voxtral evidence shows gaps in streaming, diarization and evaluationMachine Learning Street Talk · podcast
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