--- title: React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 – A Library Milestone description: React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 is a major release bringing real-time camera AI via VisionCamera v5 integration, support for instance/semantic/selfie... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/react-native-executorch-v0-8-0-a-library-milestone-pi737g9ee twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 – A Library Milestone | daily.dev og:description: React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 is a major release bringing real-time camera AI via VisionCamera v5 integration, support for instance/semantic/selfie... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/react-native-executorch-v0-8-0-a-library-milestone-pi737g9ee og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Pi737G9Ee.png og:image:alt: React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 – A Library Milestone og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 – A Library Milestone **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary React Native ExecuTorch v0.8.0 is a major release bringing real-time camera AI via VisionCamera v5 integration, support for instance/semantic/selfie segmentation and object detection with YOLO and RF-DETR, on-device multimodal LLMs (Vision Language Models) via the useLLM hook, 3x faster Whisper transcription with word-level timestamps, streaming TTS with phoneme control via Kokoro, and official bare React Native support (no Expo required). 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