BLIP-2

Salesforce · 2023 · Multimodal · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Salesforce
C · CEO & Politics: Marc Benioff — Historically a major Democratic/liberal donor; publicly engaged the Trump administration in 2024-25 (declined its inaugural fund)
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Junnan Li (Lead author), Steven Hoi (Senior author)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Salesforce's BLIP-2 vision-language model, which links a frozen CLIP-like image encoder and a frozen large language model (here OPT-2.7b) through a trained Querying Transformer (Q-Former); used for image captioning, visual question answering and chat about images.
S · Stock / Status: $230 (CRM, Sep 30, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @salesforce
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal from Salesforce, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“BLIP-2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/blip-2.html