RF100-VL: how well do LibreYOLO models generalize?
Sep 5 · 5 min read
RF100-VL results measuring how YOLOv9, YOLOX, YOLO-NAS, EdgeCrafter and RF-DETR generalize across 100 real-world datasets after fine-tuning.
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Tutorials and deep dives on running detection models with LibreYOLO.
YOLO-NAS Is Still Maintained
Aug 20 · 1 min read
Run, train, validate and export YOLO-NAS in LibreYOLO. SuperGradients last released in April 2024. We plan to train new weights from scratch to drop Deci's license.
Best YOLOv8 Alternatives in 2026
Aug 20 · 1 min read
RF100-VL measures how well a detector fine-tunes off COCO. RF-DETR and YOLO-NAS score higher than YOLOv8. How to run both in LibreYOLO.
69 Edge AI NPU Companies: Chips, SDKs & YOLO (2026)
Aug 15 · 70 min read
A source-backed guide to 69 edge AI companies and NPU ecosystems: chips, SDKs, artifacts, quantization, and documented computer vision and YOLO support.
EfficientDet Alternative in 2026: Run D0-D4 with LibreYOLO
Aug 15 · 1 min read
Run EfficientDet D0-D4 prediction, validation and export through LibreYOLO's object-detection API.
Facebook DETR Alternative in 2026: Run It with LibreYOLO
Aug 15 · 1 min read
The original Facebook Research DETR repository is archived. Run four official DETR variants through LibreYOLO.
MiDaS Alternative in 2026: Depth with LibreYOLO
Aug 15 · 1 min read
The official MiDaS repository is archived. Run its Small and DPT-Large depth models through LibreYOLO.
MMYOLO Alternative in 2026: Run RTMDet with LibreYOLO
Aug 15 · 1 min read
MMYOLO's latest release is from 2023. Run supported detectors such as RTMDet through LibreYOLO's direct API.
Real-ESRGAN Alternative in 2026: Upscale with LibreYOLO
Aug 15 · 1 min read
Run Real-ESRGAN 2x and 4x image upscaling through LibreYOLO, including tiled inference for large images.
A SuperGradients Alternative for Real-Time Computer Vision
Aug 15 · 3 min read
SuperGradients stopped shipping after NVIDIA acquired Deci in 2024. LibreYOLO is a maintained alternative that runs the same YOLO-NAS weights: predict, train, and export under one MIT-licensed API.
YOLOX Alternative in 2026: Run It with LibreYOLO
Aug 15 · 1 min read
The latest YOLOX release is from 2022. Run, train, validate and export YOLOX through the LibreYOLO API.
LiteRT vs TensorFlow Lite: It Is a Rename, Not a New Format
Jul 10 · 3 min read
Google renamed TensorFlow Lite to LiteRT in September 2024. Same runtime, same .tflite files, nothing breaks. Here is why they did it, what actually changed, and how to export a LibreYOLO model to it.
LibreYOLO mentions
Jul 6 · 2 min read
A running list of talks, blog posts, and community threads that mention LibreYOLO around the web, from CVPR 2026 to Hacker News and r/computervision.
Is YOLO Free for Commercial Use? YOLOv8, YOLO11 and YOLO26 Licenses
Jul 4 · 6 min read
YOLOv5, YOLOv8, YOLO11 and YOLO26 ship under AGPL-3.0, so they are not free for closed-source commercial use. Here is what the license actually requires, version by version, and the MIT-licensed alternative.
Best Ultralytics Alternatives in 2026
Jul 1 · 13 min read
A practical guide to the best open-source alternatives to Ultralytics YOLO in 2026: their licenses, task coverage, and deployment limits, and where LibreYOLO, the most complete MIT-licensed YOLO library, fits.
LibreYOLO showed up at CVPR 2026
Jun 30 · 2 min read
At CVPR 2026 in Denver, a Jabra and IT University of Copenhagen team used LibreYOLOXs as the example model in their "Edge AI in Action" tutorial, running it on a Hailo-8L and on Snapdragon.
How to run RTMDet without mmdetection
Jun 27 · 3 min read
RTMDet is one of the fastest accurate detectors around. The official install is broken on any PyTorch released in the last two years. Here is the alternative.
How to run Depth Anything v2 with LibreYOLO
Jun 26 · 3 min read
Depth Anything V2 gives you state-of-the-art monocular depth. Here is how to run it in two lines with LibreYOLO.