Ultralytics develops and maintains open-source artificial intelligence tools, of which YOLO (You Only Look Once) is the best known. YOLO is a real-time object detection framework used by individual developers and enterprise teams alike, and the company reports more than 223 million downloads and over 126,000 GitHub stars. Its work sits at the intersection of computer vision, deep learning and machine learning model development.
The software is distributed openly and designed for ease of use, with adoption spanning energy, government and research, education, hardware and single-board computing, and enterprise technology, as well as the wider developer community. Ultralytics describes its global user base in the millions.
The company states a mission of advancing AI through open access, aiming to make the technology available regardless of means or background. Its stated values emphasise relentless progress, excellence, urgency and open access for all. Ultralytics operates on a global basis.
