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CLIP

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training.

Definition

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training. An OpenAI model that learns to connect images and text by training on millions of image-caption pairs. It can understand images through natural language descriptions and vice versa. Powers many image generation and search systems.

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