Meta releases open-source SAM 3.1 with up to 7× faster inference for dense segmentation
armand_ruiz · x · 2026-09-21
- Meta has released SAM 3.1, open source and available via the Meta API and Hugging Face for both image and video segmentation.
- The changes from SAM 3 are mostly architectural, making inference up to 7× faster in some cases when segmenting many objects, without sacrificing accuracy.
- Author Matt Deitke tested it with the prompt "hot air balloon" 🎈. SAM has become a standard foundation model for computer vision.
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