Segment Anything Model
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 47 mentions in 5 episodes 9 per episode
- SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
- Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
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- Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases
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2024 90 mentions in 5 episodes 18 per episode
- Segment Anything 2: Memory + Vision = Object Permanence — with Nikhila Ravi and Joseph Nelson
- Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- [Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
- Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
- Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
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Nelson: Roboflow users labeled 49M images using SAM in one year
“I recently pulled statistics from the usage of Sam in RoboFlow over the course of the last year, and users have labeled about forty nine million images using segment anything on the hosted side of the RoboFlow platform, and that's like five million in the last…”
Production computer vision still requires user prompting to isolate targets
“But even if you had, like, a perfect SAM, like an omniscient SAM that could see every segment in every domain with all pixels perfectly outlined, in production, you still need some way to almost, like, signal to the model what you care about.”