[rocauc]

Joseph Redmon was the original author of the YOLO family of models, up through YOLOv3. A maintainer of Darknet, Alexey Bochkovskiy (the framework for the original three YOLO models), published YOLOv4. Glenn Jocher used “YOLOv5” and showed the ML community that you can, but not without controversy[1], force a name into existence with adoption.

It appears the authors of YOLOv6 are aiming to employ a similar clever naming strategy.

I’m looking forward to more benchmarks before getting too excited.

[1] https://blog.roboflow.com/yolov4-versus-yolov5/