Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have rapidly become a focal point in AI research. Closed-source models like GPT-4o, GPT-4V, Gemini-1.5, and Claude-3.5 exemplify the impressive capabilities of advanced multimodal understanding. This April, Apple introduced MM1, a suite of multimodal models up to 30 billion parameters, setting new benchmarks in multimodal performance with features like enhanced in-context learning and multi-image reasoning. These in