diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1204d60e..72d74299 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ clip_inference turn a set of text+image into clip embeddings
 * **write_batch_size** Write batch size (default *10**6*)
 * **wds_image_key** Key to use for images in webdataset. (default *jpg*)
 * **wds_caption_key** Key to use for captions in webdataset. (default *txt*)
-* **clip_model** CLIP model to load (default *ViT-B/32*). Specify it as `"open_clip:ViT-B-32-quickgelu"` to use the [open_clip](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip) or `"hf_clip:patrickjohncyh/fashion-clip"` to use the [hugging face](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/clip) clip model.
+* **clip_model** CLIP model to load (default *ViT-B/32*). Specify it as `"open_clip:ViT-B-32/laion2b_s34b_b79k"` to use the [open_clip](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip) or `"hf_clip:patrickjohncyh/fashion-clip"` to use the [hugging face](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/clip) clip model.
 * **mclip_model** MCLIP model to load (default *sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-32-multilingual-v1*)
 * **use_mclip** If False it performs the inference using CLIP; MCLIP otherwise (default *False*)
 * **use_jit** uses jit for the clip model (default *True*)
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ clip_inference turn a set of text+image into clip embeddings
 * **slurm_partition** (default *None*), the slurm partition to create a job in.
 * **slurm_jobs**, the number of jobs to create in slurm. (default *None*)
 * **slurm_job_comment**, the job comment to use. (default *None*)
-* **slurm_nodelist**, a list of specific nodes to use .(default *None*
+* **slurm_nodelist**, a list of specific nodes to use .(default *None*)
 * **slurm_exclude**, a list of nodes to exclude when creating jobs. (default *None*)
 * **slurm_job_timeout**, if not supplied it will default to 2 weeks. (default *None*)
 * **slurm_cache_path**, cache path to use for slurm-related tasks. (default *None*)
diff --git a/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/mapper.py b/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/mapper.py
index 03df075c..c555916b 100644
--- a/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/mapper.py
+++ b/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/mapper.py
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.use_mclip = use_mclip
         self.device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
         model, _ = load_clip(
-            clip_model=clip_model, use_jit=use_jit, warmup_batch_size=warmup_batch_size, clip_cache_path=clip_cache_path
+            clip_model=clip_model,
+            use_jit=use_jit,
+            warmup_batch_size=warmup_batch_size,
+            clip_cache_path=clip_cache_path,
         )
         self.model_img = model.encode_image
         self.model_txt = model.encode_text
diff --git a/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/worker.py b/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/worker.py
index 1ccce4b4..f608b6b4 100644
--- a/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/worker.py
+++ b/clip_retrieval/clip_inference/worker.py
@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ def worker(
 
     def reader_builder(sampler):
         _, preprocess = load_clip(
-            clip_model=clip_model, use_jit=use_jit, warmup_batch_size=batch_size, clip_cache_path=clip_cache_path
+            clip_model=clip_model,
+            use_jit=use_jit,
+            warmup_batch_size=batch_size,
+            clip_cache_path=clip_cache_path,
         )
         if input_format == "files":
             return FilesReader(
diff --git a/clip_retrieval/load_clip.py b/clip_retrieval/load_clip.py
index 1230cc61..a60443eb 100644
--- a/clip_retrieval/load_clip.py
+++ b/clip_retrieval/load_clip.py
@@ -85,11 +85,18 @@ def load_open_clip(clip_model, use_jit=True, device="cuda", clip_cache_path=None
     import open_clip  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
 
     torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True
-
-    pretrained = dict(open_clip.list_pretrained())
-    checkpoint = pretrained[clip_model]
+    clip_model_parts = clip_model.split("/")
+    clip_model = clip_model_parts[0]
+    checkpoint = "/".join(clip_model_parts[1:])
+    if checkpoint == "":
+        pretrained = dict(open_clip.list_pretrained())
+        checkpoint = pretrained[clip_model]
     model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
-        clip_model, pretrained=checkpoint, device=device, jit=use_jit, cache_dir=clip_cache_path
+        clip_model,
+        pretrained=checkpoint,
+        device=device,
+        jit=use_jit,
+        cache_dir=clip_cache_path,
     )
     model = OpenClipWrapper(inner_model=model, device=device)
     model.to(device=device)
@@ -201,7 +208,13 @@ def load_clip_without_warmup(clip_model, use_jit, device, clip_cache_path):
 
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=None)
-def load_clip(clip_model="ViT-B/32", use_jit=True, warmup_batch_size=1, clip_cache_path=None, device=None):
+def load_clip(
+    clip_model="ViT-B/32",
+    use_jit=True,
+    warmup_batch_size=1,
+    clip_cache_path=None,
+    device=None,
+):
     """Load clip then warmup"""
     if device is None:
         device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
diff --git a/tests/test_clip_inference/test_mapper.py b/tests/test_clip_inference/test_mapper.py
index 3a0339a2..9d48163f 100644
--- a/tests/test_clip_inference/test_mapper.py
+++ b/tests/test_clip_inference/test_mapper.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     "model",
     [
         "ViT-B/32",
-        "open_clip:ViT-B-32-quickgelu",
+        "open_clip:ViT-B-32/laion2b_s34b_b79k",
         "hf_clip:patrickjohncyh/fashion-clip",
         "nm:mgoin/CLIP-ViT-B-32-laion2b_s34b_b79k-ds",
     ],