Multimodal means a system can process, relate, and understand different types of data simultaneously—much like how a human uses sight, sound, and touch to navigate a room. That is the future of data processing. Most traditional databases are "unimodal." For example, a standard SQL database handles text and numbers, while a vector database might handle just embeddings.
Another PowerPC usage was spotted, this time it is on the James Webb Telescope. The reliable and radiation chip was known to be used on the Orion spacecraft. Most of you know the variant called G3 on Apple PowerPC products. https://www.talospace.com/2022/01/another-powerpc-in-space.html?m=1 Here is an interesting link with many more examples of the PowerPC usage: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/a-fun-thread-on-the-powerpcs-longevity-durability-and-performance-for-ongoing-science-work.2170348/