A vision encoder is a necessary component for allowing many leading LLMs to be able to work with images uploaded by users.

The LLM is typically pre-trained. For instance, LLaVA uses the CLIP ViT-L/14 for an image encoder and Vicuna for an LLM decoder. Vicuna fine-tunes LLaMA on conversations from ShareGPT. Both the ViT ...

that can decode scrambled text, answer science questions with better accuracy than PhD holders and perform other complex tasks. The LLM series better-known by it code name Strawberry, comprises ...