Multimodal assistants companies, products & suppliers
Multimodal assistants are chat products whose marketed difference is combined text, image, audio or video in one thread. Use this page when modality is the buying criterion. Flagship general apps that also accept images — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — still have their canonical home under general-purpose assistants so those brand queries are not split.
What are Multimodal assistants?
Multimodal assistants are chat products whose marketed difference is combined text, image, audio or video in one thread. Use this page when modality is the buying criterion. Flagship general apps that also accept images — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — still have their canonical home under general-purpose assistants so those brand queries are not split.
What problems does it solve?
A text-only assistant cannot work with screenshots, photos or voice the way the buyer needs.
Typical business use cases
- Image Q&A
- Voice conversation
- Video understanding in chat
Important capabilities
- Vision
- Speech
- Cross-modal context
What buyers should evaluate
- Which modalities are in the same product SKU
- Where media is processed
- Whether a general assistant already covers the need
Risks and governance considerations
Biometric or sensitive images uploaded into a general chat log.
Procurement checklist
- Modality list
- Media retention
- Residency
- Whether you need this page or the general-assistant page
Relevant AI Trustmark assurance
Multimodal capability is a product claim until evidenced. It does not move a ChatGPT-class app off its canonical category.
Companies and providers
Claimed suppliers appear first so buyers can start with listings the company has taken ownership of. Payment does not buy this order.
Alibaba Cloud publishes Alibaba Cloud PAI, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, and Qwen Chat as named AI products. Alibaba Cloud is used for Multimodal assistants and LLMs work. Alibaba Cl
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Baidu publishes PaddleOCR, PaddlePaddle, and ERNIE Bot as named AI products. Baidu is used for Multimodal assistants and Deep-learning platforms work. Baidu publishes product infor
ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures and geographies. ByteDance pu
DeepSeek publishes DeepSeek Chat, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-VL2 as named AI products. DeepSeek is used for Multimodal assistants and LLMs work. DeepSeek publishes product informati
Google is a US technology company that sells consumer and cloud AI products, including Gemini, Search, and related developer APIs on Google Cloud. Google publishes Imagen, Gemini f
Meta Platforms sells family-of-apps advertising products and open Llama models. Public AI pages cover research models, Llama releases and developer tooling. Meta publishes LlamaFir
Moonshot AI publishes Kimi as named AI products. Moonshot AI is used for Multimodal assistants work. Moonshot AI publishes product information at kimi.com. Moonshot AI is grouped w
SpaceXAI publishes Grok as named AI products. SpaceXAI is used for Multimodal assistants work. SpaceXAI publishes product information at x.ai. SpaceXAI is grouped with Multimodal a
Tencent publishes Tencent Yuanbao and HunyuanVideo-Foley as named AI products. Tencent is used for Multimodal assistants and Sound generation work. Tencent publishes product inform
Z.ai publishes Z.ai Chat as named AI products. Z.ai is used for Multimodal assistants work. Z.ai publishes product information at chat.z.ai. Z.ai is grouped with Multimodal assista
Products
Claimed products appear first. Ranking packs and payment do not change this list.
- DeepSeek Chat· DeepSeek
- Doubao· ByteDance
- ERNIE Bot· Baidu
- Gemini· Google
- Grok· SpaceXAI
- Kimi· Moonshot AI
- Meta AI· Meta
- Qwen Chat· Alibaba Cloud
- Tencent Yuanbao· Tencent
- Z.ai Chat· Z.ai
Also used in this category
These products have a different primary category so they do not compete for the same ranking queries. They are listed here because buyers still encounter them in this job.
- Apple Intelligence· Apple
Related categories
Relevant procurement and assurance guides
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini only listed here?
Gemini remains related because modality is part of its pitch, but the canonical ChatGPT-class listing is general-purpose assistants. This page is for buyers whose requirement is multimodal interaction itself.
What are Multimodal assistants?
Multimodal assistants are chat products whose marketed difference is combined text, image, audio or video in one thread. Use this page when modality is the buying criterion. Flagship general apps that also accept images — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — still have their canonical home under general-purpose assistants so those brand queries are not split.
Why do buyers need to know which model providers sit behind an AI product?
Most products depend on named models or APIs. Buyers should identify those providers, where data is sent, and who is accountable when a model version changes. A supplier that cannot name material model providers is not ready for high-assurance procurement.
What model or provider changes should a buyer insist on being told about?
Material change usually includes a new model family, new region, new subprocessor, new write-capable tool, or a change that affects logging, privacy or human oversight. Those changes should trigger evidence refresh rather than a silent release.
How should buyers verify where AI customer data is processed?
Ask for the named processing locations, cloud regions and any subprocessors that see prompts, files or outputs. A directory listing is not evidence of residency. Independent assessment records the locations that were in scope on the assessment date.
Does a TrustMark on one product cover the rest of the company?
No. Independent assessment is scoped to the named organisation and, where relevant, the named product. Category pages list suppliers as a topic label. They do not imply that every listed company has been assessed.
What incident-handling evidence is useful for AI suppliers?
Buyers should see how AI-specific failures are detected, contained and notified — including unsafe outputs, data leakage and unauthorised agent actions. An incident policy that never mentions models, prompts or tools is incomplete for this class of product.
What security testing evidence should buyers request for an AI product?
Ask what was tested, against which version, whether prompt-injection, data-exfiltration and tenant isolation were in scope, and where failed prompts were stored. A generic ISO certificate or a vendor scanner screenshot is not by itself an AI TrustMark assessment.