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title: CLIP
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  CLIP is a model that places text and images in the same embedding space, so
  you can pick a point between two concepts — say, a butterfly and the French
  flag — and decode it back into an image mixing both
  [^3e5745ab-279e-5154-9c22-9015dba70a32@1013].
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# CLIP

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/clip-746f54e14e13

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

CLIP is a model that places text and images in the same embedding space, so you can pick a point between two concepts — say, a butterfly and the French flag — and decode it back into an image mixing both [^3e5745ab-279e-5154-9c22-9015dba70a32@1013].

In this channel's material, **CLIP** appears in Linus Lee's exploration of embeddings — it is the model that places text and images in the same embedding space, which makes it possible to slide between concepts instead of just prompting an entity [^3e5745ab-279e-5154-9c22-9015dba70a32@1013]. Lee introduces embeddings spatially, as coordinates or a color picker for meaning, and CLIP is the concrete example of that shared space in action [^3e5745ab-279e-5154-9c22-9015dba70a32@713]. His prototype **Varna** builds directly on it: it samples points along the line between two images in embedding space and decodes each one, like a slider between concepts [^3e5745ab-279e-5154-9c22-9015dba70a32@1013].