native

Definition

Built in from the start rather than bolted on. A natively multimodal model is trained on multiple modalities within one framework from the beginning, as opposed to a text model with a vision encoder attached afterward; native tool use means the capability was trained in rather than prompted around. The word is doing rhetorical work — it claims architectural integration — so it is worth checking which part of the system is actually native.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: Puffin-World — A World Model That Remembers Which Way Is UpPuffin-World: Scaling a Unified Multimodal Model with Native 3D World States
• Paper Walkthrough: DreamX-Creator — Making Sound and Picture Together in 7B, Then Finishing at 2K in One StepDreamX-Creator: Democratizing Native Audio-Video Generation at 2K Resolution
• Paper Explained: VBVR-Pro — Making "Thinking in Pictures" Trainable, Scorable, and ComparableVBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning