CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining)

[klip] /klɪp/

A model that learns links between images and words by training on pairs of pictures and captions. It maps both into a shared “latent space”, helping systems search for, sort, or describe images using text. For example, it can match “a green tram” to relevant photos. Source: Alban Leveau-Vallier (2025) ‘Glossary,’ trans. Michelle Noteboom, 'The World Through AI', JBE Books