This lecture introduces Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL), a novel approach to self-supervised image representation learning. BYOL utilizes two neural networks, online and target, to predict representations of augmented views of images. It achieves state-of-the-art results without using negative pairs, reaching 74.3% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet. The lecture delves into the architecture of BYOL, the importance of the target network, and the dynamics of learning without contrastive pairs.