LLaVA - Large Language and Vision Assistant Open-source vision-language model for conversational image understanding. When to use LLaVA Use when: - Building vision-language chatbots - Visual question answering (VQA) - Image description and captioning - Multi-turn image conversations - Visual instruction following - Document understanding with images Metrics : - 23,000+ GitHub stars - GPT-4V level capabilities (targeted) - Apache 2.0 License - Multiple model sizes (7B-34B params) Use alternatives instead : - GPT-4V : Highest quality, API-based - CLIP : Simple zero-shot classification - BLIP-2…