--- title: Vision AI in 2025 — Peter Robicheaux, Roboflow | daily.dev description: Computer vision models significantly lag behind language models in intelligence and capability. Current vision evaluations like ImageNet and COCO are saturated... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vision-ai-in-2025-peter-robicheaux-roboflow-k3dyzqmb4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vision AI in 2025 — Peter Robicheaux, Roboflow | daily.dev og:description: Computer vision models significantly lag behind language models in intelligence and capability. Current vision evaluations like ImageNet and COCO are saturated... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vision-ai-in-2025-peter-robicheaux-roboflow-k3dyzqmb4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K3DYzQMB4.png og:image:alt: Vision AI in 2025 — Peter Robicheaux, Roboflow 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. # Vision AI in 2025 — Peter Robicheaux, Roboflow **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 17 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Computer vision models significantly lag behind language models in intelligence and capability. Current vision evaluations like ImageNet and COCO are saturated and don't require true visual intelligence. Vision-language models struggle with basic visual tasks like reading analog clocks or determining object orientation. The gap exists because vision models don't effectively leverage large-scale pre-training like language models do. Roboflow introduces RF-DETR, which uses DINOv2 pre-trained backbones for real-time object detection, and RF100VL, a new benchmark dataset with 100 diverse object detection tasks to better measure visual model intelligence across different domains and imaging modalities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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