Most “multimodal” AI is just duct tape.

One model for text.
Another for vision.
A pipeline to glue it together.

But what happens when text + vision are native in the same model, with a 256K context window?

That is what Moonshot AI just changed.

A thread on what I learned from… pic.twitter.com/CmnuE9FNJx

— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 24 mars 2026

Most “multimodal” AI is just duct tape. One model for text.
Another for vision.
A pipeline to glue it together. But what happens when text + vision are native in the same model, with a 256K context window? That is what Moonshot AI just changed. A thread on what I learned from

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