Morning Edition · Monday, June 22, 2026
Meta's Segment Anything 3 Makes Open-Vocabulary Segmentation a Text Prompt
The model detects, segments, and tracks every instance of a concept from a phrase like "yellow school bus," roughly doubling prior systems on Meta's open-vocabulary benchmark.
Meta's Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) shifts the family from pixel-level prompting to concept-level prompting. Where SAM and SAM 2 required a manual click or box per instance, SAM 3 takes an open-vocabulary text description and segments a…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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