Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Apple
embeddingfamily

MobileCLIP

Fast image-text models for phones, trained with multi-modal reinforced training, for on-device zero-shot classification and search.

Chart of MobileCLIP average performance against image and text encoder latency, from the model repository.
Levelfamily
Classembedding
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released28 Nov 2023
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onmobile or NPU
Statusactive

Lineage

AppleMobileCLIP2-S0 belongs to this familyembedding25 Aug 2025
AppleMobileCLIP-S0 belongs to this familyembedding6 Mar 2024
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Apple
Family
not in the notes
Released
28 Nov 2023 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
hybrid Hybrid convolution and transformer image encoders
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text, image
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
Apple Machine Learning Research Model License (apple-amlr) sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
mobile or NPU
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2311.17049 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17049
  2. github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip https://github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip
  3. github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models/blob/main/RE... https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models/blob/main/README.md
  4. huggingface.co/apple/MobileCLIP-S0 https://huggingface.co/apple/MobileCLIP-S0
  5. huggingface.co/apple/MobileCLIP2-S0 https://huggingface.co/apple/MobileCLIP2-S0

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "MobileCLIP", https://aurion.semai.id/models/apple-mobileclip/, records of October 2026.