OWL-ViT

Google · 2022 · Vision/CV · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Google
C · CEO & Politics: Sundar Pichai — Centrist / historically bipartisan
D · Date: 2022
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: Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist), Sundar Pichai (CEO Alphabet)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Vision/CV
N · Safety Issues: Computer-vision risks: dataset bias, domain shift, privacy concerns in images, and unreliable performance outside benchmark-like settings.
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Google's OWL-ViT, an open-vocabulary object detector that adapts a contrastively pretrained image-text Vision Transformer to detection with minimal changes and end-to-end fine-tuning; it finds objects from free-text queries (zero-shot) or from an example image (one-shot), and its authors found more image-level pretraining and larger models consistently improved detection.
S · Stock / Status: $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @Google
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Vision/CV from Google, released 2022.

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

“OWL-ViT.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/owl-vit.html