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A model that accepts an image is not the same as a model that uses one. A working guide to the decisions that separate the two: API or adapter, what the training pairs must contain, how to test for the unimodal shortcut, and what the tokens actually cost.
Before a single model could read an image and write about it, two research communities spent a decade building separate pieces that had to be joined by hand. This is the record of each join.
A printed picture exists only when separately produced channels register with one another. Multimodal models are assembled the same way, and the join — not the parts — is where the claim of a single unified system is won or lost.