Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball.Ars Technica

On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and understand natural language instructions. The researchers believe multimodal AI—which integrates different modes of input such as text, audio, images, and video—is a key step to building artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can perform general tasks at the level of a human.

“Being a basic part of intelligence, multimodal perception is a necessity to achieve artificial general intelligence, in

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