BEiT

Microsoft · 2021 · Vision/CV · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Microsoft
C · CEO & Politics: Satya Nadella — Centrist / moderate
D · Date: 2021
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI), Kevin Scott (CTO)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Vision/CV
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Microsoft Research's BEiT (Bidirectional Encoder representation from Image Transformers, June 2021), which brought BERT-style masked pre-training to vision: images are split into patches and discrete visual tokens, some patches are masked, and the Vision Transformer learns to predict the missing tokens; the 86M-parameter base model reached 83.2% ImageNet-1K top-1 versus 81.8% for DeiT trained from scratch, and the 304M large model 86.3% using ImageNet-1K alone. Followed by BEiT v2 and BEiT-3.
S · Stock / Status: $516 (MSFT, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @Microsoft
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Vision/CV from Microsoft, released 2021.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

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