ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 Roboflow releases since Mar 2025, most recently RF-DETR on Mar 20, 2025. Highlights include RF-DETR, RF100-VL. All 2 shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live.
Roboflow drops RF-DETR, a SOTA open-source object detection model
Roboflow released RF-DETR, a state-of-the-art real-time object detection model, announced as breaking news on the show by CEO Joseph Nelson. The model is fully open source on GitHub and targets practical, deployable computer vision workloads.
Roboflow launches RF100-VL benchmark for vision-language models
Alongside RF-DETR, Roboflow introduced RF100-VL, a new evaluation benchmark for vision-language models built from real-world detection datasets. It gives the community a grounded way to measure how well VLMs handle practical object detection tasks.
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