CLIP - Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training

OpenAI's model that understands images from natural language.

When to use CLIP

Use when:

• Zero-shot image classification (no training data needed)
• Image-text similarity/matching
• Semantic image search
• Content moderation (detect NSFW, violence)
• Visual question answering
• Cross-modal retrieval (image→text, text→image)

Metrics:

• 25,300+ GitHub stars
• Trained on 400M image-text pairs
• Matches ResNet-50 on ImageNet (zero-shot)
• MIT License