# Hugging Face — New ViT and ALIGN Models From Kakao Brain

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-03-06
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/vit-align
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2087-new-vit-and-align-models-from-kakao-brain
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: ViT, ALIGN

Kakao Brain and Hugging Face release open-source ViT and ALIGN models trained on the new COYO dataset of 700 million image-text pairs, marking the first public open-source release of the ALIGN model and the first ViT and ALIGN models trained on an open dataset.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/vit-align:

> Kakao Brain and Hugging Face are excited to release a new open-source image-text dataset COYO of 700 million pairs and two new visual language models trained on it, ViT and ALIGN. This is the first time ever the ALIGN model is made public for free and open-source use and the first release of ViT and ALIGN models that come with the train dataset.

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