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Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026Published at 7:02 AM EDT · New York
Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Reaches Production as Apps Build on Meta's SAM 3
Meta's promptable concept-segmentation model, which finds and tracks any specified object from a text prompt, is moving from benchmark tests into shipping consumer products.
Meta's Segment Anything Model 3 is an 848-million-parameter foundation model that detects, segments, and tracks objects from text prompts and visual prompts across images and video. Unlike its predecessor, SAM 3 can exhaustively find every…
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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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