Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
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DINOv2

Meta self-supervised image feature backbone; parent of DINOv3 and backbone of RF-DETR.

Meta
Levelmodel
Classvision
Parameters304.4M
Contextnot in the notes
Released17 Jul 2023
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onsingle datacentre GPU, embedded GPU
Statusactive

Lineage

successorfinetune
LW-DETR to RF-DETR: successor, medium confidenceDINOv2 to DINOv3: successor, high confidenceDINOv2 to RF-DETR: finetune, medium confidenceDINO (v1) to DINOv2: successor, high confidenceDINO (v1)DINO (v1)Meta, Apr 2021LW-DETRLW-DETRDINOv2DINOv2Meta, Jul 2023DINOv3DINOv3Meta, Aug 2025RF-DETRRF-DETRRoboflow, Nov 2025
MetaDINOv3 is a child (successor)high confidencemodel card
RoboflowRF-DETR is a child (finetune)medium confidencemodel card
MetaDINO (v1) is the parent (successor)high confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 5 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Meta
Family
not in the notes
Released
17 Jul 2023 sourcesregistry date
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer Self-supervised ViT
Total parameters
304.4M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
304.4M for dinov2-large; family up to about 1B (unverified)
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
single datacentre GPU, embedded GPU
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/api/models/facebook/dinov2-large https://huggingface.co/api/models/facebook/dinov2-large
  2. RF-DETR: Neural Architecture Search for Real-Time Detection Transformers arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09554v2

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "DINOv2", https://aurion.semai.id/models/meta-dinov2/, records of October 2026.