Reka Core ranks second in the ELO rating system / Photo credit: Reka AI

AI company Reka AI has launched Reka Core, its first multimodal language model. Working with images, audio, and video, Core is “competitive” with leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google across industry-accepted metrics, the company said in a statement.

Reka AI – which was founded by researchers from DeepMind, Google, and Meta – is based in San Francisco but has two Southeast Asian founders. Singaporean Yi Tay is the company’s chief scientist, while CEO Dani Yogatamagrew up in Indonesia.