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Opinion
Robinson: YOLO architectures have hit a performance plateau
“So, for years, yellows have been the dominant way of doing real time object detection, and we can see here that they've essentially stagnated. The performance between 10 and 11 is not meaningfully different. At least, you know, in, in this type of high level c…”
Isaac Robinson Dec 22, 2024 ▶ 15:07 Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nelson: Users Ran 8 Million Inferences in SAM 3's First Five Days
“I mean, in the first five days of SAM three, there was like eight million inferences of folks that were running across all diverse sets of fields.”
Joseph Nelson Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 16:57 SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
Insight
Ravi: Many video CV workflows require per-frame detection, not identity tracking
“I think also in many video use cases, I think, because if you were sharing on RoboFlow, Users care more about detecting the objects rather than having unique identities. So in, in some cases this, maybe it's, this isn't required to preserve the identities thro…”
Nikhila Ravi Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 49:58 SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nelson: Roboflow Records 106 Million Annotations Powered by Meta SAM
“And we've seen basically a hundred and six million kind of smart poly created examples that are SAM one, two, or three powered.”
Joseph Nelson Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 14:30 SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nelson: Millions of developers and half the Fortune 100 use Roboflow
“Now, millions of developers, half the Fortune 100, build with RoboFlow's tools and infrastructure to create and deploy models to production.”
Joseph Nelson Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 3:44 SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Nelson: Roboflow users overwhelmingly voted for SAM 3 in blind pre-release testing
“That's actually interesting because we had blind tested SAM three before it was released, not a SAM three, just for people to try and compare. I think we call it like a potential SAG or SAG preview or something. And we allowed users to vote and they kind of un…”
Joseph Nelson Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 33:49 SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: SAM has saved Roboflow users 75 years of labeling time
“SAM for us has saved our users 75 years of labeling time.”
Isaac Robinson Dec 22, 2024 ▶ 8:05 Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Disclosure
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…”
Joseph Nelson Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 6:48 Segment Anything 2: Memory + Vision = Object Permanence — with Nikhila Ravi and Joseph Nelson
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