>Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

What I thought when reading the title: A new base model trained from the ground up on multimodal input, on hundreds to thousands of GPUS

The reality: A finetune of Vicuna, trained on 8xA100, which already is a finetune of Llama 13b. Then it further goes on to re-use some parts of LLava, which is an existing multimodal project already built upon Vicuna. It's not really as exciting as one might think from the title, in my opinion.