models/yolo26/

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models/yolo26/

YOLO26 from Ultralytics delivers faster, simpler, end-to-end NMS-free object detection optimized for edge and low-power devices.

https://docs.ultralytics.com/models/yolo26/

[cribbinsb]

Nice! Great to see the continued progress. Please can you add comparisons with Roboflow's RF-DETR? Seems if you believe Roboflow's numbers that may be significant competition once it gets more mature, particularly given it's more permissive licensing

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[andaoai]

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[glenn-jocher]

@cribbinsb Appreciate it—credit to the YOLO community and Ultralytics team; once YOLO26 weights are finalized we’ll publish an apples‑to‑apples comparison (including RF‑DETR) with COCO‑640 metrics and CPU/GPU latencies; in the meantime, YOLO11 remains the recommended stable baseline for production—see the YOLO11 documentation; if there’s specific hardware/batch sizes you’d like covered, please list them here.
@andaoai Your message looks incomplete—could you clarify? If it’s a different topic, please open a new discussion for visibility; feel free to drop YOLO26 questions here so the team can review, and you can also skim the announcement overview in our YOLO26 blog post.

[Bardiya-Brad]

Great! When do you release the models?

[Victor-D-T]

Hi! Incredible job and awesome surprise! Is there a possibility that YOLO26 will be released in October? Also, is there any group on Discord or anyother platform that I can join to better understand how the work develops and also be useful? Thanks

[Y-T-G]

We have an Ultralytics Discord

https://discord.com/invite/ultralytics