Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Salesforce
multimodal LLMfamily

BLIP

Vision-language pre-training that bootstraps captions from noisy web data, with models for image captioning, visual question answering and image-text retrieval.

Animated diagram of the BLIP model architecture and its image text retrieval and captioning tasks.
Levelfamily
Classmultimodal LLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released28 Jan 2022
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

SalesforceBLIP image captioning large belongs to this familymultimodal LLM13 Dec 2022469.73M
SalesforceBLIP VQA base belongs to this familymultimodal LLM12 Dec 2022384.67M
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
Salesforce
Family
not in the notes
Released
28 Jan 2022 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
dense transformer
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 permissive
Licence
BSD 3-Clause sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
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/2201.12086 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086
  2. github.com/salesforce/BLIP https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP
  3. github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/ma... https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/notebooks/community/model_garden
  4. paperswithcode.com/method/blip https://paperswithcode.com/method/blip
  5. huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-large
  6. huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-vqa-base https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-vqa-base

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