Model reference · open weights

larger_clap_general

larger_clap_general is an open-weight embedding model from laion, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Embeddings laion 1 variants 316k downloads/mo
Request this model on EU hardware All served models Not on the shared API today — deployed on request.

About

What larger_clap_general is

Model TL;DR CLAP is to audio what CLIP is to image. This is an improved CLAP checkpoint, specifically trained on general audio, music and speech. Description CLAP (Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining) is a neural network trained on a variety of (audio, text) pairs. It can be instructed in to predict the most relevant text snippet, given an audio, without directly optimizing for the task. The CLAP model uses a SWINTransformer to get audio features from a log-Mel spectrogram input, and a RoBERTa model to get text features. Both the text and audio features are then projected to a latent space with identical dimension. The dot product between the projected audio and text features is then used as a similar score. Usage You can use this model for zero shot audio classification or extracting audio and/or textual features. Uses Perform zero-shot audio classification Using pipeline Run the model: You can also get the audio and text embeddings using ClapModel Run the model on CPU: Run the model on GPU: Citation If you are using this model for your work, please consider citing the original paper:

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerlaion
TypeEmbedding models
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-10-30
Popularity316k downloads / month
Likes53
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How embedding models work

Your textsentence / documentEncodermaps meaningVectorlist of numbersAn embedding model turns text into a vector, so similar meanings sit close together — the basis of search and RAG.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
larger_clap_generalBF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys larger-clap-general for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (larger-clap-general below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"larger-clap-general","input":"text to embed"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers pytorch clap feature-extraction endpoints_compatible deploy:azure

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

Want larger_clap_general on EU-owned hardware?

Request this model on EU hardware See what’s served now

Explore

More embedding models

© 2026 AxForge · EU-hosted AI infrastructure Pricing Docs Trust Privacy Terms