CLIP
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Overview
Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining. Zero-shot image classification.
Details
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Type
- Vision/CV
- Release year
- 2021
- Jurisdiction
- USA
- CEO
- Sam Altman
- Key staffers
- Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist), Brad Lightcap (COO), Fidji Simo (CEO Applications), Sarah Friar (CFO), Mark Chen (SVP Research), Denise Dresser (CRO)
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Open source
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Subscription
- ChatGPT: Free / Go $8 / Plus $20 / Pro $200 (US)
- Stock status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- X
- @OpenAI
Safety notes
Computer-vision risks: dataset bias, domain shift, privacy concerns in images, and unreliable performance outside benchmark-like settings.
Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“CLIP.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/clip.html
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