Block's full-duplex Dessa learns conversation from audio alone. Grok Imagine's seven-minute Odyssey episode shows that long AI video still relies on heavy editing.
October 26, 2026 edition: Multimodal sector, 2 storiesMultimodal: latest AI analysis
Multimodal on AT Pulse covers image, audio & video. The desk has published 61 stories tagged Multimodal across 25 daily editions, from September 15, 2026 to October 27, 2026, citing 671 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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October 25, 2026 edition: Multimodal sector, 3 storiesNew voice models take different routes: ElevenLabs tunes a managed pipeline, while Block trains on conversation audio alone. Vision and document models are going into TB screening and commodity-trading tools.
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Gemini 4 Argon Canvas Demo Turns Webcam Motion Into Musical Notes
A webcam tool credited to Gemini 4 Argon, built in Gemini Canvas, draws musical-scale lines over live video and plays notes when motion crosses them.
Agents
YouTube creator says Claude Code skills run three automated video-editing workflows
A creator selling access to a paid community says custom Claude Code skills cut, caption, animate and package long-form, faceless and short-form videos from one instruction.
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Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained Only on Recorded Conversation
Block's internal AI lab released a research preview of Dessa, a speech-to-speech model trained from scratch on recorded conversation with no text or pretrained backbone.
Agents
Julian Goldie demos 'Hermes Apollo,' a paid voice dashboard built on Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent v0.20.0
Julian Goldie's 'Hermes Apollo' is a paid voice dashboard layered on Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent v0.20.0, whose official release added streaming speech, interruption and local wake words; the dashboard's screen-reading feature appears only in Goldie's own demo.
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Grok Imagine releases seven-minute first episode of its AI-generated 'Odyssey'
xAI's Grok Imagine posted a seven-minute Episode 1 of The Odyssey, built with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length AI feature by year-end.
Business
Socceroo Cristian Volpato licenses his AI 'synthetic twin' to startup Callandor
Socceroo Cristian Volpato has granted California startup Callandor exclusive rights to his likeness, voice, biometric and performance data, which it plans to license to brands as a synthetic twin while unauthorised athlete deepfakes spread and legal protections remain thin.
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BBC's Blue Planet III keeps murky, unpolished footage to show audiences it was not made with AI
For Blue Planet III, BBC producers kept cloudy, plankton-filled shots and left boats and buoys in frame, and commissioning head Jack Bootle said no generative AI was used in any frame.
Agents
ElevenLabs Launches Eleven Realtime v1 Mini and Max Voice Agent Models
ElevenLabs' Eleven Realtime packages listening, reasoning and speech into managed voice agents in Mini and Max tiers.
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- 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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