CLIP: Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for Multimodal Understanding
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CLIP: Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for Multimodal Understanding

Michael Brenndoerfer•November 2, 2025•15 min read•3,645 words•Interactive

A comprehensive guide to OpenAI's CLIP, the groundbreaking vision-language model that enables zero-shot image classification through contrastive learning. Learn about shared embedding spaces, zero-shot capabilities, and the foundations of modern multimodal AI.

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Michael Brenndoerfer (2025). CLIP: Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for Multimodal Understanding. Retrieved from https://mbrenndoerfer.com/writing/clip-contrastive-language-image-pretraining-multimodal
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Michael Brenndoerfer

About the author: Michael Brenndoerfer

All opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.

Michael currently works as an Associate Director of Data Science at EQT Partners in Singapore, where he drives AI and data initiatives across private capital investments.

With over a decade of experience spanning private equity, management consulting, and software engineering, he specializes in building and scaling analytics capabilities from the ground up. He has published research in leading AI conferences and holds expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and value creation through data.

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