Building multimodal AI products: text, vision and audio together
NEO Campus Editorial13 February 20266 min read
Multimodal models have moved from research demos to product primitives. The interesting design space is what to do with them.
Vision unlocks new inputs
Screenshots, receipts, whiteboards — anything a user can point a camera at becomes a valid input. Onboarding flows shorten dramatically.
Audio is the next interface
Real-time voice models change support, sales, and accessibility. The latency budget matters more than the model.
Latency budgets
Multimodal pipelines stack latency. Streaming, chunking, and parallel calls are no longer optional.
