Opinion

New Platform Challenges AI Industry Hype, Advocates for Embodied Intelligence Over Language Models

Emerging Voice in Tech Analysis Questions Trillion-Dollar AI Valuations and Points to Robotics as True Future of Artificial Intelligence The real value of AI will come from the systems we build around ...

Humanoid Robotics Emerges as Solution for Not-Well-Defined Real-World Problems

New Analysis Platform Explores Why Household Tasks and Physical Automation Require Embodied Intelligence Beyond Traditional Computer Approaches The next wave of AI is physical AI. AI that understands ...
IEEE

ZSPose: Instance-Level Zero-Shot Object Pose Estimation With Segment Anything Model

Abstract: Estimating the poses of new objects is a challenging problem. Although many methods have been developed for instance-level object pose estimation, they often struggle when faced with ...
GitHub

facebookresearch/sam-3d-objects

SAM 3D Objects is a foundation model that reconstructs full 3D shape geometry, texture, and layout from a single image, excelling in real-world scenarios with occlusion and clutter by using ...
Wired

This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...
IEEE

Goal-Conditioned Model Simplification for 1-D and 2-D Deformable Object Manipulation

Abstract: Motion planning for deformable object manipulation has been a challenge for a long time in robotics due to its high computational cost. In this work, we propose to mitigate this cost by ...
Forbes

Google Cofounder Larry Page Overtakes Bezos For World’s Third Richest After Gemini 3 AI Model Announcement

Google cofounder Larry Page overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s third-wealthiest person Wednesday, as Alphabet’s stock surged by nearly 6% in the wake of strong third quarter earnings ...
SiliconANGLE

Meta’s new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D

Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, introducing enhanced object recognition and ...
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New Segment Anything Models Make it Easier to Detect Objects and Create 3D Reconstructions

We’re introducing SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection, which advance AI understanding of the visual world. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in ...
VentureBeat

From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later

When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a ...
TechCrunch

Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform

Creative suite company Canva launched its own design model on Thursday that understands design layers and formats to power its features. The company also introduced new products and features, updates ...
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Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations

Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations. Zizhao Wang, Kaixin Wang, Li Zhao, Peter Stone, and Jiang Bian. @InProceedings{dyno_neurips2025, author = {Zizhao Wang and ...