Multimodal Product Discovery & Search
Search that reasons across images, text and style, not just keywords.
Multimodal search ("find me something like this photo, but in blue") is now table stakes for any serious e-commerce catalogue — keyword-only search is a measurable conversion drag.
Sequencing
Builds on Vector Search over Catalog & Reviews
Multimodal AI across other industries
Single models reasoning jointly across text, image, audio and structured data.
Multimodal Foundation Models
Single models reasoning across text, image, audio and video.
Multimodal Diagnostic AI
Models reasoning jointly over imaging, labs and clinical notes.
Multimodal Document Intelligence
Models extracting structured data from loan, KYC and claims documents.
Multimodal Visual Quality Inspection
Vision-language models inspecting products for defects against spec.
From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.
An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.