Gartner predicts 40% of GenAI solutions will be multimodal by 2027

Forty percent of generative AI (GenAI) solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023, according to Gartner, Inc. This shift from individual to multimodal models provides an enhanced human-AI interaction and an opportunity for GenAI-enabled offerings to be differentiated.

Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, said, “As the GenAI market evolves towards models natively trained on more than one modality, this helps capture relationships between different data streams and has the potential to scale the benefits of GenAI across all data types and applications. It also allows AI to support humans in performing more tasks, regardless of the environment.” Multimodal GenAI is one of two technologies identified in the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle for GenAI, where early adoption has potential to lead to notable competitive advantage and time-to-market benefits. Along with open-source large language models (LLMs), both technologies ...