Why GPT-4o Is So Fast: The Critical Difference Between Multimodal and Omni Models
A token-level analysis comparing the pipeline approach (STT→LLM→TTS) text bottleneck with native omni model token fusion. Explains why GPT-4o and MiniCPM-o are fundamentally faster.
Why GPT-4o Is So Fast: The Critical Difference Between Multimodal and Omni Models
When GPT-4o launched, what surprised most people wasn't its performance. It was the speed. Ask it something by voice, and it responds in near real-time with emotion in its voice. It felt fundamentally different from every voice AI before it.
And then MiniCPM-o 4.5 matched that GPT-4o-level performance with just 9B parameters. How?
The answer lies in the "Omni architecture." More precisely, it comes down to how different modalities of data are tokenized and mixed inside a single model.
In this article, we dissect the difference between the pipeline approach and the native Omni approach at the token level.
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