Groq, a fast AI Inference, has unveiled LLaVA v1.5 7B, a cutting-edge visual model on GroqCloud. The model launch marks a significant milestone for GroqCloud to broaden its support to image, audio, and text modalities. The LLaVA v1.5 7B will enable developers and businesses to tap into the vast potential of multimodal AI, facilitating innovative applications that combine visual, auditory, and textual inputs.
What is LLaVA?
Large Language and Vision Assistant, abbreviated as LLaVA, is a powerful multimodal model that integrates language and vision capabilities. The model is based on OpenAI’s CLIP and Meta’s Llama 2 7B model, leveraging visual instruction tuning to enhance image-based natural instruction following and visual reasoning.
LLaVA is capable of performing tasks such as Visual question answering, Caption generation, Optical Character Recognition, and Multimodal dialogue.
LLaVA v1.5 7B model unlocks numerous practical applications. It supports vast applications and can be used for a wide range of tasks:
- Visual Question Answering (VQA)
- Image Captioning
- Multimodal Dialogue Systems
- Accessibility
Retailers can use the model to track inventory levels and identify products that are running low. Social media platforms can create text descriptions of images, Customer service chatbots can handle conversations involving both text and images, and e-commerce platforms can generate text descriptions of images for visually impaired individuals.
LLaVA v1.5 7B can also automate various tasks in diverse industries, including Factory line, Retail, Finance, and Education. Groq’s LLaVA v1.5 7B supports vision/image inputs and in its initial benchmarking response times were >4X faster than GPT-4o on OpenAI, according to Artificial Analysis. In a tweet, Artificial Analysis tweeted that Groq’s response time, measured as time to respond with 100 output tokens, across the median of 10 requests was 0.99s, >4X faster than GPT-4o.
Groq’s LLaVA v1.5 7B is in Preview Mode for the community to experiment with image recognition systems running at Groq Speed. With LLaVA v1.5 7B, GroqCloud now supports three modalities, which empower developers and businesses to build innovative applications that combine visual, auditory, and textual inputs.
Founded in 2016, Groq builds technology to advance AI. The company provides fast AI inference in the cloud and on-prem AI compute centers.
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