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Meta Launches SAM 3.1 API for Zero-Shot Object Detection, Segmentation and Video Tracking

Sep 21, 2026

Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3.1 | Meta | Meta

Meta launches the SAM 3.1 API, letting developers use text prompts to detect, segment and track objects across video while preserving identity, with no model hosting or fine-tuning required and pricing starting at $2.50 per 1,000 images.

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Alibaba’s Damo Academy Open-Sources AI Model That Detects Nearly 150 Abdominal Conditions in CT Scans

Sep 21, 2026

South China Morning Post

Alibaba’s Damo Academy open-sources Damo Radar, an AI model that analyzes contrast-enhanced CT scans across 18 abdominal organs to detect 146 findings—including cancers—with a reported average AUC of 0.913 in nearly 40,000 real-world examinations.

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Parents and Children Sue Meta Over Alleged Photo Harvesting for AI and Face Recognition

Sep 11, 2026

WIRED

Parents and children sue Meta in Illinois and California, alleging it harvested Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train Emu and Muse Image AI models and develop the unshipped NameTag face-recognition system, potentially exposing millions to claims worth up to $5,000 per intentional Illinois biometric-privacy violation.

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Qwen-Drive-1.0 Launches as a Unified AI Model Combining 3D Perception and Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving

Sep 08, 2026

GitHub

Qwen-Drive-1.0 launches as a powerful unified AI model combining 3D perception, visual question answering, and motion planning for autonomous driving, outperforming competitors on major benchmarks and now freely available under an open-source license.

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Tencent Releases WeMM-Embedding Models, Claiming Top Scores on Multimodal Benchmarks

Aug 27, 2026

GitHub

Tencent's WeChat Vision Team releases WeMM-Embedding, a family of multimodal AI models in 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes that claim top scores on MMEB-v2 and MMEB-v3 benchmarks, supporting text, images, videos, and documents, now publicly available on Hugging Face under Apache License 2.0.

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Palona AI Raises $20M to Deploy Vision AI That Automates Operations for Restaurants, Hotels, and Malls

Aug 19, 2026

SiliconANGLE

Palona AI secures $20 million in Series A funding to scale its vision AI platform that automates real-time operations for restaurants, hotels, and malls, with early results showing a 20% revenue boost at a restaurant chain deployment.

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Berkeley Researchers Release PixelRAG, an Open-Source AI System That Searches Documents as Images to Preserve Visual Structure

Jul 30, 2026

GitHub

Berkeley researchers unveil PixelRAG, a groundbreaking open-source AI system that searches documents as images rather than text, preserving critical visual elements like tables and charts across 8.28 million Wikipedia pages using a fine-tuned vision model and publicly available tools on Hugging Face.

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New C++ Port of Depth Anything 3 Runs Faster Than PyTorch With No Python or CUDA Required

Jul 20, 2026

GitHub

A new open-source C++17 port of ByteDance's Depth Anything 3 model runs up to 1.31x faster than PyTorch on CPU, uses half the memory, loads 6.7x faster, and requires no Python, PyTorch, or CUDA — delivering monocular depth estimation and 3D point cloud export from a single image in a …

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OpenAI's CLIP Matches ResNet50 on ImageNet With Zero Labeled Training Data in Major AI Breakthrough

Jul 16, 2026

GitHub

OpenAI's CLIP neural network matches ResNet50's ImageNet performance with zero labeled training data, marking a major breakthrough in computer vision by using natural language instructions instead of task-specific optimization.

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AllenAI's olmOCR Converts PDFs and Images to Markdown for Under $200 Per Million Pages

Jul 02, 2026

GitHub

AllenAI's open-source olmOCR toolkit converts PDFs and images into clean Markdown text — including equations, tables, and handwriting — for under $200 per million pages, with its latest v0.4.0 release scoring 82.4 on a 7,000+ test benchmark, rivaling top OCR tools while supporting GPU inference, Docker, and multi-node cloud processing.

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