Multimodal Agents: Beyond Chat Into the Real World
The next frontier for agents is perceiving and acting on screens, sensors and documents — not just text.
Screens as the new API
Models that can parse pixels and audio are enabling agents that operate GUIs directly, reconcile invoices from PDFs, and even audit video feeds.
The reliability bar is still high — a misread number on a financial document is worse than no number at all — but the interface expansion is the real unlock. Text-only agents were the warm-up.
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