# YOLO-World

YOLO-World is a zero-shot object detection model that allows you to perform object detection without any training, just by describing the items you want to detect.

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You can also run YOLO-World locally using [Inference](https://inference.roboflow.com), our open-source inference server.
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### API Reference

The base URL for our hosted API is at `https://infer.roboflow.com`.

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More information on using YOLO-World with Inference, through the Python SDK or the self-hosted API, see the [YOLO-World Inference docs page](https://inference.roboflow.com/foundation/yolo_world/).
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