Chennai's transport overhaul tackles buses, trains, and cycling. The integration challenges mentioned highlight why digital coordination matters as much as infrastructure investment.

https://jfwonline.com/article/is-chennai-shifting-to-a-new-dawn-of-transport/

The evolution from roads designed for cars, to streets designed for people. It’s never been about whether or not there’s “enough room” — It’s ALWAYS been about our priorities. Nice graphic via @bikeyface.bsky.social. #multimodal

Petition to have all buses and coaches in Ireland fitted with these backers to carry bikes!

x Gemeinsam unterwegs: Die starke Partnerschaft von stadtmobil & VVS und SSB macht Mobilität in Stuttgart noch smarter! Viele Wege lassen sich bequem mit Bus & Bahn zurücklegen – und wenn’s mal flexibel, spontan oder mit viel Gepäck sein muss, ist stadtmobil die perfekte Ergänzung.

Wann nimmst du Bus & Bahn und wann greifst du lieber auf ein stadtmobil zurück?

Great article by @juliametraux.bsky.social in @motherjones.com - read beyond the headline! "Maddy Ruvolo, a disabled transportation planner... concerned to see #accessibility used as a political football.” #pwd #MultiModal

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3lqtf2jeeek2z

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…” @nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility #MultiModal

Do car-free zones hurt disable...

Want an economically competitive city? A fiscally smart city? A healthy city? A sustainable, climate-responsible & resilient city? An equitable & accessible city? A livable city? A city with more choices? A successful city today, that’s positioned for a successful future? Build a #multimodal city.

AGI Is Not Multimodal

https://thegradient.pub/agi-is-not-multimodal/

ElevenLabs KI-Update 2025: Was bringt Claude Sonnet 4?

• Sprache & Text gleichzeitig
• Intelligenter durch Claude 4
• Natürlichere KI-Dialoge
• Schnellere Entwicklung möglich
• Höheres User-Engagement

#ai #ki #artificialintelligence #elevenlabs #claudesonnet4 #multimodal

https://kinews24.de/elevenlabs-konversations-ki-multimodal-sonnet-4/

Presenting #BAGEL, the latest attempt at impressing your CS professor with buzzwords like "open-source" and "multimodal." Finally, a model that lets you pretend a bagel can solve all your #coding problems!
https://bagel-ai.org/ #open-source #multimodal #humor #techinnovation #HackerNews #ngated

Small models are making giant leaps! @Google just released Gemma 3n, a mobile-first #multimodal LLM that can understand text, images, audio and even video input while running on your phone

Read the announcement here: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n

Herrenberg is boasting about about their multimodal system for sustainable transport: stadtnavi. Hey, other cities, don't be jealous: Just adopt the solution, developed by Trufi.

What happens when AI learns to think across all senses?
From 1T tokens to 35+ benchmarks, discover how multi-modal AI systems like Unified-IO 2 are fusing vision, language, and sound into one unified brain.
https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/from-1t-tokens-to-total-cognition-the-numbers-behind-the-new-ai-brain-bf5cb9e7c8a8
#AI #Multimodal #FutureOfAI #DeepLearning
https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/from-1t-tokens-to-total-cognition-the-numbers-behind-the-new-ai-brain-bf5cb9e7c8a8

Attention! If you or your company:

- are based in the EU
- you’re thinking of integrating Llama models into your product

Pay close attention to its license: you may be breaking Meta’s terms!

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2025-05-16-llama-eu-ban/

Oh joy! Ollama's shiny new toy can handle *multimodal* models, as if the world wasn't already drowning in #buzzwords and models that are impossible to distinguish from one another. Apparently, you can now ask a bajillion-parameter monstrosity what it sees in a video frame—because what we really needed was another way to get ignored by #AI.
https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models #Ollama #Multimodal #VideoAnalysis #AIModels #HackerNews #ngated

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multimodal.md

SpeechAgents: Human-Communication Simulation with Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Systems. Multi-modal LLM system simulates human communication using speech and generates human-like dialogues with consistent content, rhythm, & emotion.

Funnily, they also elaborate on a "think before you speak" design aspect. This might also be applicable to our everyday lives.

doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.03945
#LLM #multimodal #speechAI #multiagent #conversationalai