YOLOv8
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Ultralytics
- C · CEO & Politics
- Glenn Jocher — No public partisan activity documented
- 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 / global
- K · Key Staffers
- Ayush Chaurasia (Co-author), Jing Qiu (Co-author)
- 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 source, AGPL-3.0); Enterprise License for closed-source commercial use
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Ultralytics' real-time vision model, released January 10, 2023, with pretrained versions for object detection, instance segmentation, classification, pose estimation and oriented object detection. No longer Ultralytics' latest YOLO: the company now points new projects to YOLO26.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @ultralytics
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Vision/CV from Ultralytics, released 2023.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“YOLOv8.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/yolov8.html