What problem does it solve?
CLIP solves the problem of figuring out what an image is about without training a custom model, by aligning images and natural-language text in a shared embedding space.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Zero-shot image classification: classify images into arbitrary text labels without fine-tuning.
- Image-text matching & retrieval: find the most relevant images for a text query (and vice versa) using cosine similarity.
- Cross-modal embeddings for downstream pipelines: generate reusable image/text embeddings for tasks like semantic search, deduplication, and moderation.
Example use case: You have a folder of product photos and want to tag them by concepts like "red shirt" or "winter clothing" instantly, then search for “photos with a sunset” across the collection.
Quick Start
Use the clip skill to classify an image by comparing its embedding to a list of candidate text labels.