Ultralytics AI Releases: YOLO26

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Ultralytics release so far: YOLO26 on Aug 20, 2026. Ultralytics YOLO26 removes NMS from default inference entirely. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

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YOLO26

Ultralytics YOLO26 removes NMS from default inference entirely

Ultralytics released YOLO26, removing non-maximum suppression from default inference entirely. It scores 40.9-57.5 mAP on COCO across sizes with up to 43% faster CPU inference.

40.9-57.5 mAP on COCO across sizes43% faster CPU inference
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