Roboflow Universe

12 Feb 2026 • 2 min read

Vision AI Trends 2026: Top Use Cases Across 10 Global Industries

Today, Roboflow released the Vision AI Trends: 2026 Report, an analysis of 200,000 projects that reveals how enterprises use computer vision. With over a million engineers and half the Fortune 100 building with Roboflow, the report illustrates the top applications of vision AI across major industries.  By examining this

19 Nov 2025 • 5 min read

Launch: Use Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) with Roboflow

Today, we are introducing new tools powered by Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) that significantly change how people build computer vision applications. SAM 3 is a powerful vision foundation model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on prompts. See our detailed SAM 3 model overview

13 Nov 2025 • 3 min read

Roboflow Named Leader in Image Recognition Software

We’re proud to announce that as of November 2025, Roboflow has been ranked the #1 Image Recognition product on G2.

13 Mar 2025 • 1 min read

Foundational Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge [CVPR 2025]

Roboflow & Carnegie Mellon University are releasing the second iteration of the Foundational Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge at CVPR 2025.

11 Feb 2025 • 7 min read

Top Free Research Datasets

Successful research and data science projects begin with quality datasets. Here is a collection of the top free and open research datasets.

21 Mar 2024 • 4 min read

Launch: YOLO-World Support in Roboflow

Learn how you can use YOLO-World with Roboflow.

8 Feb 2024 • 7 min read

First Impressions with Gemini Advanced

Read our first impressions using the Gemini Ultra multimodal model across a range of computer vision tasks.

6 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Identify Solar Panels in Aerial Imagery with Computer Vision

Learn how to identify solar panels in aerial imagery with computer vision.

10 Jan 2024 • 7 min read

Roboflow's 12 Days of #Shipmas: 2024

Learn about the 12 features Roboflow released as part of #Shipmas2023.

21 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

NeurIPS 2023 Papers Highlights

NeurIPS 2023, the conference and workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, took place December 10th through 16th. The conference showcased the latest in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This year’s conference featured 3,584 papers that advance machine learning across many domains. NeurIPS announced the NeurIPS 2023 award-winning papers

13 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

First Impressions with Google’s Gemini

In this guide, we evaluate Google's Gemini LMM against several computer vision tasks, from OCR to VQA to zero-shot object detection.

6 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

Comparing Custom Models to Google Cloud Vision API

In this guide, we go over how to evaluate object detection models on Roboflow Universe versus Google Cloud Vision.

28 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

Launch: Synthetic Image Generation with DALL-E and GPT-4 Vision

In this guide, learn how to use Roboflow to generate synthetic data with DALL-E and GPT-4 Vision for use in training vision models.

27 Nov 2023 • 3 min read

Roboflow Video Inference with Custom Annotators

Performing real-time video inference is crucial for many applications like autonomous vehicles, security systems, logistics, and more. However, setting up a robust video inference pipeline can be time consuming. You need a trained computer vision model, inference code, and visualization tools to annotate each frame. This is a lot of

23 Nov 2023 • 7 min read

GPT-4 Vision Alternatives

Explore alternatives to GPT-4 Vision with Large Multimodal Models such as Qwen-VL and CogVLM, and fine-tuned detection models.

24 Oct 2023 • 6 min read

Launch: Roboflow Logistics Pre-trained Object Detection Model

The Roboflow Logistics Model, trained on 99,238 images across 20 classes, offers a domain-specific advantage for logistics vision use cases.

1 Aug 2023 • 4 min read

Using Stable Diffusion and SAM to Modify Image Contents Zero Shot

Introduction Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) and foundation computer vision models have unlocked new interfaces and methods for editing images or videos. You may have heard of inpainting, outpainting, generative fill, and text to image; this post will show you how to execute those new generative AI functions

25 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

Detect and Segment Oil Spills Using Computer Vision

An oil spill in the sea is a devastating environmental incident that occurs when oil is released into the marine environment. Oil spills pose significant threats to marine ecosystems, wildlife, and coastal communities, and they can have long-lasting and far-reaching consequences. Due to the logistical difficulties in getting to impacted

30 May 2023 • 5 min read

How to Classify Images with DINOv2

In this guide, we walk through how to classify images using DINOv2 and a dataset from Roboflow Universe.

12 May 2023 • 6 min read

What is ImageBind? A Deep Dive

In this guide, we dive deep into Meta Research's new ImageBind model. We discuss what the model is, how it works, and its real-world applications.

10 May 2023 • 12 min read

Multimodal Models and Computer Vision: A Deep Dive

In this post, we discuss what multimodals are, how they work, and their impact on solving computer vision problems.

21 Apr 2023 • 5 min read

Zero-Shot Image Annotation with Grounding DINO and SAM - A Notebook Tutorial

In this comprehensive tutorial, discover how to speed up your image annotation process using Grounding DINO and Segment Anything Model. Learn how to convert object detection datasets into instance segmentation datasets, and use these models to automatically annotate your images.

30 Mar 2023 • 6 min read

Grounding DINO : SOTA Zero-Shot Object Detection

Most object detection models are trained to identify a narrow predetermined collection of classes. Zero-shot detectors like Grounding DINO want to break this status quo by making it possible to detect new objects without re-training a model.

27 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

Roboflow Community Passes 200k Open Source Datasets

Roboflow’s mission is to democratize access to computer vision. We aim to actively help accelerate the world toward a future where everyone can build with computer vision. As a part of this mission, we invest in providing resources to the community in the form of free access to the