Specification

Release date: 12 Dec 2022
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium
Openness: open-weights
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 4 h agomedium
License: bsd-3-clause
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium
Architecture: BlipForConditionalGeneration
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium
Hugging Face repo: Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 4 h agomedium
Pipeline tag: image-to-text
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 4 h agomedium
Model card: huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 4 h agomedium
Downloads: 1,802,248
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Likes: 889
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Gated: No
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium
Last modified: 2025-02-03T06:45:16+00:00
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 4 h agomedium
Library name: transformers
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium
Downloads all time: 68,074,694
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Model type: blip
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium
Tags: transformers, pytorch, tf, blip, image-text-to-text, image-captioning, image-to-text
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 3 h agomedium

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Provenance

Attributed facts

15

Source tiers

T215

Freshest observation

2 h ago

Conflicts

None

Modalities

Modalities unavailable.

Capabilities

Tool calling
Unavailable
Structured output
Unavailable
Reasoning
Unavailable
Vision
Unavailable
Audio
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Fine-tuning available
Unavailable

No capability flags have been observed from a source yet — we do not infer them.

No structured attributes yet.

No benchmark results recorded

Results appear when a tier 1–3 source publishes them; we never copy scores without a source.

Current prices

No current prices recorded

Prices appear when a provider publishes a public pricing page we crawl.

Price history

No hardware estimate available

Estimates need a parameter count; this model has none recorded from a source.

No lineage recorded

Lineage comes from explicit `derived_from`, `fine_tuned_from`, `distilled_from` and `quantized_from` relations stated by sources.

Papers 1

arXiv:2201.12086Active
35

Repositories 0

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As of

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Claim history

7 claims · 7 properties

Opennessopenness1

Claim history for Openness
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
open-weights	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Hugging Face repohf_repo1

Claim history for Hugging Face repo
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Pipeline tagpipeline_tag1

Claim history for Pipeline tag
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
image-to-text	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Model cardmodel_card_url1

Claim history for Model card
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Downloadsmetric.downloads1

Claim history for Downloads
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
1,802,248	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Likesmetric.likes1

Claim history for Likes
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
889	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Last modifiedlast_modified1

Claim history for Last modified
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
2025-02-03T06:45:16+00:00	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

11 Sept 2026
New modelModelblip-image-captioning-baseSalesforce
New model: blip-image-captioning-base (Salesforce)
huggingface
huggingface.co

Full timeline →

Source documents
Source	Document	Type	Tier	Last observed	Snapshots
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base/raw/main/README.md	model_card	T2· Quality secondary	1 h ago	1
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base	model_page	T2· Quality secondary	2 h ago	2
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/models?author=Salesforce&p=0&sort=downloads	listing	T2· Quality secondary	3 h ago	3

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.