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nvclip

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NV-CLIP is a multimodal embeddings model for image and text.

Computer visionRun-on-rtxmultimodal embeddingstext and image
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Follow the steps below to download and run the NVIDIA NIM inference microservice for this model on your infrastructure of choice.

Step 1
Generate API Key

Step 2
Pull and Run the NIM

$ docker login nvcr.io
Username: $oauthtoken
Password: <PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>

Pull and run the NVIDIA NIM with the command below. This will download the optimized model for your infrastructure.

export NGC_API_KEY=<PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>
export LOCAL_NIM_CACHE=~/.cache/nim
mkdir -p "$LOCAL_NIM_CACHE"
docker run -it --rm \
    --gpus all \
    -e NGC_API_KEY=$NGC_API_KEY \
    -v "$LOCAL_NIM_CACHE:/opt/nim/.cache" \
    -p 8000:8000 \
    nvcr.io/nim/nvidia/nvclip:latest

Step 3
Test the NIM

You can now make a local API call using this curl command:

curl -X POST  'http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/embeddings' \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{
        "input": ["The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog",
                  "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAIAAACQd1PeAAAAEElEQVR4nGK6HcwNCAAA//8DTgE8HuxwEQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="
                ],
        "model": "nvidia/nvclip-vit-h-14",
        "encoding_format": "float"
      }'

For more details on getting started with this NIM, visit the NVIDIA NIM Docs.