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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 9, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Are Doing Production Work in National Labs and Assistive Robotics
Segment Anything and DINO are being used at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in University of Pittsburgh work on robotic arms for people with paralysis.
Meta has published two accounts of its open vision models being used outside consumer products. In the first, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory applies Segment Anything and DINO to early Genesis Mission projects, the United States feder…
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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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