Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Washington, Apr. 5 (BNA): Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company’s research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images and videos even in cases where it had not encountered those items in its training, Reuters reported. Using SAM, objects can be selected by clicking on them or writing text prompts. In one demonstration, writing the word “cat”…