Researchers from Apple and Columbia University released Ferret, an open source multimodal LLM that can recognize and describe any shape in an image, in October (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-quietly-released-an-open-source-multimodal-llm-in-october/
http://www.techmeme.com/231224/p7#a231224p7