The community members are discussing the best vision model that performs as well as GPT-4, which is an LLM with a vision modality. Some suggestions include llama3.1/2 and the multimodal version, as well as closed-source models like sonnet and gemini. One community member mentions qwen but is unsure about its multimodal capabilities. There is also a discussion about the reliability of academic benchmarks, with one community member expressing skepticism. Another community member shares their experience with OpenAI's vision model, noting that it performs well on a document with a lot of numbers. Finally, a community member expresses interest in a similar model that can run locally.