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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2021
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · 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)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Vision/CV
- N · Safety Issues
- Computer-vision risks: dataset bias, domain shift, privacy concerns in images, and unreliable performance outside benchmark-like settings.
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, MIT)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- OpenAI's CLIP (January 5, 2021), a neural network that learns visual concepts from natural-language supervision on image-text pairs from the internet and can be instructed in natural language to pick the most relevant text for an image, a zero-shot ability like GPT-2's and GPT-3's; it matched the original ResNet-50 on ImageNet without any of its 1.28M labeled examples, but struggled with abstract tasks such as counting objects. Code and models are on GitHub under the MIT license.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Vision/CV from OpenAI, released 2021.
Data completeness 85% · 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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