OPEN-SOURCE OMNI-MODAL FOUNDATION MODEL

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The Baichuan Omni 1.5 model supports text, image, video, and audio inputs as well as text and audio outputs. This means it is another example of an any-to-any style model, sometimes referred to as natively multimodal. The model, like many, uses an interleaved multimodal tokens approach where different types of tokens are routed to different encoders/decoders that all get processed by some main auto-regressive model.