Morning Edition · Sunday, July 5, 2026
Meta's Segment Anything Powers a Promptable 'Digital Closet'
A consumer fashion app shows flexible image segmentation moving from a research suite to a shipped product.
Meta has published a case study showing the fashion app Alta Daily using its Segment Anything model to build a "digital closet," isolating individual garments in photos so users can catalog and recombine them. It is a modest consumer applic…
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