[GaggiX]

>This is by far the best open source vlm model

LLaVA 1.5 is very good, at least at describing images. http://llava.hliu.cc/

[axiom92]

Right, but no separate image encoder + half the size could be very helpful for many applications.

[GaggiX]

The 7B LLaVa model is smaller, even considering the image encoder (CLIP-L).