Reka releases Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model that understands and generates video and robot actions

Reka has released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19B parameter model trained from scratch that processes text, images, video, and robot actions within a single neural network. This architecture aims to replace traditional multimodal pipelines by eliminating handoffs between specialist models, allowing all modalities to be handled as tokens in one context window.