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Multimodal AI Breaks at the Tokenizer, Not the Model

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TL;DR — The gap between a multimodal demo and a production system isn't model capability — it's the token economics of turning video and audio into sequences the transformer can read. Naive frame sampling and fixed-window audio chunking quietly blow up cost, latency, and accuracy long before the la…

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  1. 2026-10-02 13:16 · DEV Community — AI
    Multimodal AI Breaks at the Tokenizer, Not the Model

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