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Multi-Modal Agents: Vision + Action

12 posts on multi-modal agents: vision + action — part of ai agents & automation on the n4n AI blog.

AI agents & automationGuide

Screen-parsing agents: OCR, grounding, and clicks

Practical guide to building screen parsing agent OCR grounding pipelines: from screenshot capture and OCR to vision grounding and reliable click execution.

4 min read
AI agents & automationComparison

Qwen2.5-VL vs GPT-4o for vision-driven agents

Head-to-head comparison of Qwen2.5-VL and GPT-4o for vision-driven agents: capabilities, cost, latency, ergonomics, limits, and which to choose.

5 min read
AI agents & automationGuide

Pixtral 12B: a lightweight vision model for agents

A practical guide to building multimodal agents with Pixtral 12B vision agent: wiring image inputs, tool calls, fallback routing, and avoiding common latency traps.

4 min read
AI agents & automationGuide

Multimodal agents for PDF and chart understanding

Practical guide to building multimodal agents for PDF and chart understanding: extraction, vision models, agent loops, and production tradeoffs.

4 min read
AI agents & automationGuide

Llama 3.2 Vision for open-source multimodal agents

Practical guide to building open-source multimodal agents with Llama 3.2 Vision: deployment, input formatting, agent loop, parsing, and pitfalls.

4 min read
AI agents & automationAnalysis

Gemini 2.5 Pro agents that see, reason, and act

Analyze how to build production Gemini 2.5 Pro multimodal agents that perceive, reason, and act reliably, with code patterns for vision, tools, and fallback.

5 min read
AI agents & automationAnalysis

From CLIP to RT-2: how vision-action models evolved

Traces the vision-language-action model history from CLIP's perception-only pretraining to RT-2's end-to-end robot policies, weighing tradeoffs for engineers.

5 min read
AI agents & automationAnalysis

Claude 3.5 Sonnet computer use: what agents can do

Practical analysis of Claude 3.5 Sonnet computer use capabilities: how the vision-action agent works, its strengths, limits, and production hardening.

5 min read
AI agents & automationGuide

Inside Claude's computer-use API for desktop agents

A practical guide to building desktop agents with the Claude computer use API: architecture, code, pitfalls, and tradeoffs for production.

4 min read
AI agents & automationHow-to

GPT-4o vision agents that read screenshots and click

Build a GPT-4o vision agent that captures screenshots, reasons about UI elements, and executes clicks. Step-by-step guide with runnable Python code.

3 min read
AI agents & automationTutorial

Building a UI-testing agent with GPT-4o vision

Learn to build a GPT-4o UI testing agent that drives a browser from screenshots using Playwright and the OpenAI vision API in this hands-on tutorial.

4 min read
AI agents & automationHow-to

Building a multimodal agent with Claude Opus 4.5

Hands-on tutorial to build multimodal agent with Claude Opus 4.5: wire vision inputs, tool-calling loop, and screen actions for real computer-use tasks.

2 min read