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Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Meta Updates Segment Anything With Concept Prompts and Faster Video
The SAM 3 line moves from segmenting one object per prompt to detecting and tracking every instance of a text-specified concept, with a real-time video update.
Meta's Segment Anything Model 3 family extends its open-vocabulary segmentation line with promptable concept segmentation. Instead of clicking one object at a time, a user supplies a short noun phrase or an image example, and the model dete…
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