Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has introduced Chameleon, an advanced multimodal artificial intelligence system.

Chameleon aims to challenge Google's Gemini and stands out with its early fusion token-based architecture.

The AI system seamlessly combines images, text, and code, excelling in tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and text-only tasks.

Chameleon is trained on a massive dataset of 4.4 trillion tokens over 5 million hours using Nvidia A100 80GB GPUs.

The AI comes in versions with 7 billion and 34 billion parameters, demonstrating exceptional performance in tasks requiring a deep understanding of visual and textual information.

Chameleon's capabilities have positioned it ahead of competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft.

The research paper detailing Chameleon's capabilities has been published on the arXiv preprint server.

Chameleon has the potential to revolutionize the artificial intelligence field by opening up new applications that demand a comprehensive understanding of multimodal information.