
Top 6 Multimodal AI Models Leading Innovation in 2026
When Meta released Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick in early 2025, it was a signal of where the AI market was heading. Both models handle text, video, images, and audio together, rather than treating each as a separate problem. Other labs followed quickly. GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Phi-4-multimodal, and DeepSeek-OCR all shipped within months of each other, each


