We propose to build omni-modal intelligence, which is capable of
understanding any modality and learning universal representations. In specific,
we propose a scalable pretraining paradigm, named Multimodal Context (MiCo),
which can scale up the numbers of modalities and amount of data, together with
the model parameters, in the pretraining process. With MiCo, the pretrained
models show significant emergent abilities in multimodal learning, which are
evaluated on the following tasks: i) single-modality perception benchmarks of
10 different modalities, ii) 25 cross-modality understanding tasks of
retrieval, question-answering, captioning, and iii) 18 multimodal large
language model benchmarks. Our models establish 37 new records for
state-of-the-art performance. We hope that our research could contribute to the
development of omni-modal intelligence. Code and Models are at
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我们提出了建立全模态智能的方法，能够理解任何模态并学习通用表示。通过提出一种可扩展的预训练模式 —— 多模态上下文（MiCo），我们能够在预训练过程中扩大模态数量、数据量和模型参数。MiCo 预训练模型在多模态学习中展现出重要的新能力，并在 10 种不同模态的单一模态感知基准、25 种跨模态理解任务（包括检索、问答、字幕生成）和 18 种多模态大型语言模型基准上获得了 37 项最新成果记录。我们希望我们的研究能够为全模态智能的发展做出贡献。