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Co-authored CLIP: a core reference for contrastive multimodal pretraining.
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Chris Hallacy
Vision-language pretraining (CLIP)
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Co-authored CLIP: a core reference for contrastive multimodal pretraining.
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Vision-language pretraining (CLIP)
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Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
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OpenAI
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CLIP
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Vision-Language
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Multimodal
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Co-authored CLIP: a core reference for contrastive multimodal pretraining.
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Co-authored CLIP: a core reference for contrastive multimodal pretraining.
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Important because several of the modern foundation-model playbooks trace back to work he helped drive, especially around generative pretraining and multimodal transfer.
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Co-authored the original DALL·E paper: zero-shot text-to-image generation.
Start HereZero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation
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Co-authored the original DALL·E paper: zero-shot text-to-image generation.
Start HereZero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation