LEGO, the Future of TikTok, and A Problem for Your Kids?

Author(s): Ignacio de Gregorio

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ByteDance has announced a new model named LEGO that not only has impressive capabilities, but also gives us a clear idea of the future of its products, including the app your kids are glued to right now:

TikTok.

And you might not like what this future looks like.

At all.

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Even though Multimodal Large Language Models like ChatGPT are all the rage right now, they are surprisingly limited.

Therefore, since the beginning of 2024, researchers have put a lot of focus on making these models better.

There are so many promises of success that some of the largest corporations in the world, like Apple with Ferret, are working on it.

But why are MLLMs so limited?

Most MLLMs today, except some notable exceptions like Fuyu, are based on the combination of two AI components:

A Large Language Model (LLM), aka the brain of the model. It… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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