GMI Summer Signal '26 - The Modern Renaissance - From multimodal to agentic

The Modern Renaissance

The first Renaissance broke the walls between art, science, and engineering. Leonardo da Vinci showed one mind can paint, dissect, design machines, study motion, and imagine new systems of the world.

Multimodal AI is that convergence returning → vision, language, sound, motion, reasoning, and now action → agentic.

For one day, GMI Cloud turns the Exploratorium into a digital gallery, brings together the labs, partners, and builders, defining the multimodal era. We will be showing artifacts across all multimodal stacks in a relay.

From multimodal to agentic

A year ago you prompted a model and got back one thing: an image, a clip, a voice.

Now an agent takes a single brief and runs the whole production → it writes the script, generates the shots, casts a voice, cuts the video, and ships the result, without a human ever switching tools.

The models each got good enough, so the frontier moved to the mind that orchestrates them. That's the shift we're here to show, live.

More at Summer Signal '26

3:00 PM · Enter the Gallery
The Modern Renaissance Gallery live on screens. Bring your own artifact, or start building one in the room.

4:00 PM · GMI opening keynote

Chapter I: Seeing

Before multimodal systems can speak, move, or act, they need to see: showcase of how models learn to see, generate, edit, and turn images into production workflows.

Chapter II: Speaking

4:30 PM · Inworld AI and the Future of Consumer Applications
— Igor Poletaev, CSO, Inworld AI

Chapter III: Moving

From static generation to cinematic performance, continuity, and story

4:45 PM · 
GMI Cloud Prime Inference — Haomin, PM, GMI Cloud

5:05 PM · Minimax H3 Demo — Victor S. Global Product Marketing Manager, Minimax

5:20 PM · Utopai Studios PAI 3.0 demo and agentic filmmaking — David, head of product, PAI; Jie Yang, CTO, Utopai

Gallery Break
Create with GMI Studio, submit artifacts, and watch the gallery evolve throughout the museum.

Chapter IV: Worlds

From generated media to generated environments that models can understand, simulate, and act inside.

6:00 PM · Reactor Demo — Ahmed Ahres, Head of GTM, Reactor

6:15 PM · How We Build Detection Models for a Threat That Never Stops Growing
— Tedi Papajorgji, CTO, Resemble AI

Chapter V: From Multimodal to Agentic

Agents take a single brief and orchestrate the whole stack into a working pipeline, we will feature how agents step in to direct the multimodal stack, and turn models into working products

6:30 PM · GMI Agentbox & GMI Studio — Mingjun, PM, GMI Cloud

6:45 PM · 
Demo: Build a World in 15 mins with Luma
— Kyt Janae, Forward Deployed Creative, Luma AI

7:00 PM · The understanding + agentic layer beneath multimodal → "what happens after you generate — LlamaIndex

Chapter VI: The CONVERGENCE

7:20 PM · Panel: From Hollywood to AI-Native Entertainment
— Shu Studio, Real Reel

8:00 PM · SCALE Cohort 2 Reveal & Closing Reception

Who should join

Summer Signal is built for the people shaping the multimodal and agentic era:

• Founders & engineers building AI-native products

• AI/ML & infrastructure leaders — CTOs, VPs of AI, Heads of ML, Platform & Inference

• Enterprise teams deploying multimodal or agentic AI in production

• Developers & API builders scaling inference

• Creators & studios working at the frontier of AI content

• Investors & operators tracking what's next

About GMI Cloud

GMI Cloud is an AI-native inference platform and one of only seven NVIDIA Reference Platform Cloud Partners globally. We provide the GPU infrastructure and a library of 170+ AI models across LLM, video, and audio, optimized for real-time, production multimodal workloads.