Comment by samstevens

unfortunately the models are still stronger without extra modalities. So LFM3-1.7B is better at pure text tasks than all other models. the LFM3-VL-2B is better at text/vision tasks than the Omni, the Audio model is a stronger ASR/TTS model than the Omni, etc.

It's a goal of ours to continue unifying training across modalities so that there is truly one model, instead of just this shared pre-trained backbone.