LLaVA

LLaVA (Large Language and Vision Assistant) is an open-source, large multimodal model that connects a vision encoder and LLM for general-purpose visual and language understanding. LLaVA's strong proficiency in instruction-following positions it as a highly competitive contender among multimodal AI models. The latest version, LLaVA-NeXT, allows for improved question answering. Among the open-source models for language and vision assistance, LLaVA is a promising option when compared to GPT-4 Vision. Our teams have been experimenting with it for visual question answering.