Best Open Source Multimodal Vision Models in 2025
AI models are not just about LLMs and generating text. Multimodal vision models—which understand and generate images, videos, and even audio alongside text—are enabling new AI applications. At their core, multimodal vision models combine: There are several different types of multimodal vision models: vision-language models (VLMs) that generate text based on images, vision-reasoning models that answer complex questions based on images, and more.