There's a couple of massive intuition leaps here (around tokens and the ease of which predicting one modality extends to another), but if you're interested in d

There's a couple of massive intuition leaps here (around tokens and the ease of which predicting one modality extends to another), but if you're interested in diving into the field at the place where they're asking questions like this, you could start by looking at the transition from BPE to the tokenizer we have today for the tokenization front, and PercieverIO for the multimodal generalization front.