We are releasing, for free, a state-of-the-art pretrained vision model

I am excited to announce on behalf of my team that we not only set a new state-of-the-art in general pretrained vision models, we are also publicly releasing this model to Give Back to the research community and the industry. We are accelerating deep learning research and computer vision production by empowering every person and every organization on the planet to use our model, for free, for research and for commercial purposes!

You can get the model at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-vision-model-resnet-50-combines-web-scale-data-and-multi-task-learning-to-achieve-state-of-the-art/. We will also be hosting a webinar on February 25th where we demo how to download this model to build an example image classifier (we will write code from scratch so that you can follow even if you have no computer vision knowledge) and host a live QnA to answer any questions. Join us if you can!