diff --git a/examples/llm_hello_world.py b/examples/llm_hello_world.py
index 62fc2ed68..bf7f170a7 100644
--- a/examples/llm_hello_world.py
+++ b/examples/llm_hello_world.py
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 @File    : llm_hello_world.py
 """
 import asyncio
+from pathlib import Path
 
 from metagpt.llm import LLM
 from metagpt.logs import logger
+from metagpt.utils.common import encode_image
 
 
 async def main():
@@ -38,6 +40,17 @@ async def main():
     if hasattr(llm, "completion"):
         logger.info(llm.completion(hello_msg))
 
+    # check llm-vision capacity if it supports
+    invoice_path = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("..", "tests", "data", "invoices", "invoice-2.png")
+    img_base64 = encode_image(invoice_path)
+    try:
+        res = await llm.aask(msg="if this is a invoice, just return True else return False",
+                             images=[img_base64])
+        assert "true" in res.lower()
+    except Exception as exp:
+        pass
+
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     asyncio.run(main())
diff --git a/metagpt/provider/base_llm.py b/metagpt/provider/base_llm.py
index db2757ec3..7e71b6cc9 100644
--- a/metagpt/provider/base_llm.py
+++ b/metagpt/provider/base_llm.py
@@ -60,12 +60,25 @@ class BaseLLM(ABC):
         """
         if isinstance(images, str):
             images = [images]
+<<<<<<< HEAD
         content = [{"type": "text", "text": msg}]
+=======
+        content = [
+            {"type": "text", "text": msg}
+        ]
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)
         for image in images:
             # image url or image base64
             url = image if image.startswith("http") else f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{image}"
             # it can with multiple-image inputs
+<<<<<<< HEAD
             content.append({"type": "image_url", "image_url": url})
+=======
+            content.append({
+                "type": "image_url",
+                "image_url": url
+            })
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)
         return {"role": "user", "content": content}
 
     def _assistant_msg(self, msg: str) -> dict[str, str]:
@@ -131,7 +144,11 @@ class BaseLLM(ABC):
         system_msgs: Optional[list[str]] = None,
         format_msgs: Optional[list[dict[str, str]]] = None,
         images: Optional[Union[str, list[str]]] = None,
+<<<<<<< HEAD
         timeout=USE_CONFIG_TIMEOUT,
+=======
+        timeout=3,
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)
         stream=True,
     ) -> str:
         if system_msgs:
@@ -142,10 +159,14 @@ class BaseLLM(ABC):
             message = []
         if format_msgs:
             message.extend(format_msgs)
+<<<<<<< HEAD
         if isinstance(msg, str):
             message.append(self._user_msg(msg, images=images))
         else:
             message.extend(msg)
+=======
+        message.append(self._user_msg(msg, images=images))
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)
         logger.debug(message)
         rsp = await self.acompletion_text(message, stream=stream, timeout=self.get_timeout(timeout))
         return rsp
diff --git a/metagpt/provider/openai_api.py b/metagpt/provider/openai_api.py
index dbfed72df..c679ea840 100644
--- a/metagpt/provider/openai_api.py
+++ b/metagpt/provider/openai_api.py
@@ -109,9 +109,15 @@ class OpenAILLM(BaseLLM):
         kwargs = {
             "messages": messages,
             "max_tokens": self._get_max_tokens(messages),
+<<<<<<< HEAD
             # "n": 1,  # Some services do not provide this parameter, such as mistral
             # "stop": None,  # default it's None and gpt4-v can't have this one
             "temperature": self.config.temperature,
+=======
+            "n": 1,
+            # "stop": None,  # default it's None and gpt4-v can't have this one
+            "temperature": 0.3,
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)
             "model": self.model,
             "timeout": self.get_timeout(timeout),
         }
diff --git a/metagpt/utils/common.py b/metagpt/utils/common.py
index 0f6df8c94..f49d69d41 100644
--- a/metagpt/utils/common.py
+++ b/metagpt/utils/common.py
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@ import platform
 import re
 import sys
 import traceback
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 from io import BytesIO
+=======
+import typing
+import base64
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Callable, List, Literal, Tuple, Union
 from urllib.parse import quote, unquote
@@ -744,6 +749,7 @@ def list_files(root: str | Path) -> List[Path]:
     return files
 
 
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 def parse_json_code_block(markdown_text: str) -> List[str]:
     json_blocks = re.findall(r"```json(.*?)```", markdown_text, re.DOTALL)
     return [v.strip() for v in json_blocks]
@@ -861,3 +867,8 @@ def get_markdown_codeblock_type(filename: str) -> str:
         "application/sql": "sql",
     }
     return mappings.get(mime_type, "text")
+=======
+def encode_image(image_path: Path, encoding: str = "utf-8") -> str:
+    with open(str(image_path), "rb") as image_file:
+        return base64.b64encode(image_file.read()).decode(encoding)
+>>>>>>> 9cbc3466 (add gpt4-v)