Strong Artificial Intelligence (Strong AI) or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with abstract reasoning ability is the goal of next-generation AI. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), along with the emerging field of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of multimodal tasks and applications. Particularly, various MLLMs, each with distinct model architectures, training data, and training stages, have been evaluated across a broad range of MLLM benchmarks. These studies have, to varying degrees, revealed differResearch goal: How does the zero-shot cross-domain retrieval performance of MMICL compare to specialized multimodal models on TextCaps when evaluated using precision@K and mean average precision (mAP) metrics?Autonomous synthesis report generated by SOVEREIGN Research Kernel. Tribunal consensus score: 8.5/10.