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ArticleNature2026

Multimodal learning with next-token prediction for large multimodal models.

Xinlong Wang, Yufeng Cui, Jinsheng Wang, Fan Zhang, Yueze Wang, Xiaosong Zhang, Zhengxiong Luo, Quan Sun, Zhen Li, Yuqi Wang and 16 more

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Xinlong Wang *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China. xinlong.wang96@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6974-7976
Yufeng Cui *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Jinsheng Wang *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Fan Zhang *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Yueze Wang *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Xiaosong Zhang *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Zhengxiong Luo *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Quan Sun *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Zhen Li *Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Yuqi WangBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Qiying YuBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Yingli ZhaoBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Yulong AoBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Xuebin MinBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Chunlei MenBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.ORCID 0009-0003-5935-7127
Boya WuBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Bo ZhaoBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Bowen ZhangBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Liangdong WangBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Guang LiuBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Zheqi HeBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Xi YangBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Jingjing LiuTsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yonghua LinBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China.
Zhongyuan WangBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China. zhongyuan@baai.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-2987-9672
Tiejun HuangBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China. tjhuang@baai.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-4234-6099

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing a unified algorithm that can learn from and generate across modalities such as text, images and video has been a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. Although next-token prediction has driven major advances in large language models

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AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceHumansLarge Language ModelsRoboticsVideo Recording

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PMID41606344
PMCPMC12893917

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