Florence-2
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Microsoft
- C · CEO & Politics
- Satya Nadella — Centrist / moderate
- D · Date
- 2023
- 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
- 6/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 6.5/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 9/10 · Significance 6/10 → 6.3
- R · What Makes It Special
- Microsoft's Florence-2 (November 2023), a vision foundation model with a unified, prompt-based sequence-to-sequence design that takes text prompts as task instructions and returns text for captioning, object detection, grounding, segmentation and OCR; it was trained on FLD-5B, a co-developed dataset of 5.4 billion visual annotations on 126 million images, with strong zero-shot and fine-tuning results. Base (0.23B) and large (0.77B) versions are on Hugging Face under MIT.
- 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 2023.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“Florence-2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/florence-2.html
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