vlm

OpenAI released CLIP. LAION and friends released OpenCLIP — a reproducible, openly-trained re-implementation that has quietly become the default vision-language embedding backbone. Here's what it is, why it won, and how to drop it into a project.

How models like CLIP, GPT-4V, and Claude visual learn to talk about pictures. Cover the contrastive trick behind CLIP, the difference between embedding models and generative VLMs, and where each one shines.