LLaVA

LLaVA (Large Language and Vision Assistant) is a groundbreaking open-source multimodal AI model that combines vision and language understanding with GPT-4 level capabilities. Developed by researchers from UW-Madison and Microsoft, LLaVA achieves state-of-the-art performance on 11 benchmarks through visual instruction tuning. It can understand images, answer questions about visual content, and engage in natural conversations about what it sees. With 25k+ GitHub stars and Apache-2.0 licensing, LLaVA supports LLama-3, Qwen-1.5, and various model sizes from 7B to 110B parameters. The model can be fine-tuned with LoRA on consumer GPUs and deployed for both research and production use cases.