I tried out the multimodality and this is the biggest win, imo.
You can give it a CCTV image (like of a train platform) and ask it to quickly decide actions such as triggering an automated auditory alert, deferring to a larger model for more detailed analysis, etc.
- Cost : It is the same for both scenarios $0.10 per 1M tokens
- Speed : decisions is 10x faster than responses API
- Quality : I guess if we compare with luna which is a pretty good model it itself, both will be at par
So essentially it has to do more with speed vs any other factor.