<ul><li>Multimodal modeling aims to understand and generate content across visual and textual formats, integrating image recognition and generation into a unified system to enhance interactions.</li><li>BLIP3-o, developed by Salesforce Research in collaboration with academic institutions, introduces a family of unified multimodal models using CLIP embeddings and a sequential training approach for image understanding and generation.</li><li>The model leverages CLIP embeddings and a diffusion transformer for image synthesis, employing a dual-stage training strategy that enhances alignment and visual fidelity.</li><li>BLIP3-o outperforms in various benchmarks, achieving top scores in image generation alignment, reasoning ability, and image understanding, showcasing its superiority in subjective quality assessments.</li></ul>

Salesforce AI Releases BLIP3-o: A Fully Open-Source Unified Multimodal Model Built with CLIP Embeddings and Flow Matching for Image Understanding and Generation

Salesforce AI Releases BLIP3-o: A Fully Open-Source Unified Multimodal Model Built with CLIP Embeddings and Flow Matching for Image Understanding and Generation

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