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AI and the Brain: How DINOv3 Models Reveal Insights into Human Visual Processing

AI NewsSeptember 13, 20253Views 0Likes 0Comments

Introduction Understanding how the brain builds internal representations of the visual world is one of the most fascinating challenges in neuroscience. Over the past decade, deep learning has reshaped computer vision, producing neural networks that not only perform at human-level accuracy on recognition tasks but also seem to process information in ways that resemble our…

Meta CLIP 2: The First Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) Trained with Worldwide Image-Text Pairs from Scratch

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202512Views 0Likes 0Comments

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become important for modern vision and multimodal models, enabling applications such as zero-shot image classification and serving as vision encoders in MLLMs. However, most CLIP variants, including Meta CLIP, are limited to English-only data curation, ignoring a significant amount of non-English content from the worldwide web. Scaling CLIP to include…

Qwen Team Introduces Qwen-Image-Edit: The Image Editing Version of Qwen-Image with Advanced Capabilities for Semantic and Appearance Editing

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202514Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the domain of multimodal AI, instruction-based image editing models are transforming how users interact with visual content. Just released in August 2025 by Alibaba’s Qwen Team, Qwen-Image-Edit builds on the 20B-parameter Qwen-Image foundation to deliver advanced editing capabilities. This model excels in semantic editing (e.g., style transfer and novel view synthesis) and appearance editing…

Meta AI Just Released DINOv3: A State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Model Trained with Self-Supervised Learning, Generating High-Resolution Image Features

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202510Views 0Likes 0Comments

Meta AI has just released DINOv3, a breakthrough self-supervised computer vision model that sets new standards for versatility and…

VL-Cogito: Advancing Multimodal Reasoning with Progressive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202511Views 0Likes 0Comments

Multimodal reasoning, where models integrate and interpret information from multiple sources such as text, images, and diagrams, is a frontier challenge in AI. VL-Cogito is a state-of-the-art Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) proposed by DAMO Academy (Alibaba Group) and partners, introducing a robust reinforcement learning pipeline that fundamentally upgrades the reasoning skills of large models…

NASA Releases Galileo: The Open-Source Multimodal Model Advancing Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202513Views 0Likes 0Comments

Introduction Galileo is an open-source, highly multimodal foundation model developed to process, analyze, and understand diverse Earth observation (EO) data streams—including optical, radar, elevation, climate, and auxiliary maps—at scale. Galileo is developed with the support from researchers from McGill University, NASA Harvest Ai2, Carleton University, University of British Columbia, Vector Institute, and Arizona State University.…

NVIDIA AI Presents ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202517Views 0Likes 0Comments

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Introduction Embodied AI agents are increasingly being called upon to interpret complex, multimodal instructions and act robustly in dynamic environments. ThinkAct, presented by researchers from Nvidia and National Taiwan University, offers a breakthrough for vision-language-action (VLA) reasoning, introducing reinforced visual latent planning to bridge high-level multimodal reasoning…

VLM2Vec-V2: A Unified Computer Vision Framework for Multimodal Embedding Learning Across Images, Videos, and Visual Documents

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202519Views 0Likes 0Comments

Embedding models act as bridges between different data modalities by encoding diverse multimodal information into a shared dense representation space. There have been advancements in embedding models in recent years, driven by progress in large foundation models. However, existing multimodal embedding models are trained on datasets such as MMEB and M-BEIR, with most focus only…

How Radial Attention Cuts Costs in Video Diffusion by 4.4× Without Sacrificing Quality

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202523Views 0Likes 0Comments

Introduction to Video Diffusion Models and Computational Challenges Diffusion models have made impressive progress in generating high-quality, coherent videos, building on their success in image synthesis. However, handling the extra temporal dimension in videos significantly increases computational demands, especially since self-attention scales poorly with sequence length. This makes it difficult to train or run these…

ByteDance Researchers Introduce VGR: A Novel Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) with Enhanced Fine-Grained Visual Perception Capabilities

AI NewsSeptember 13, 202533Views 0Likes 0Comments

Why Multimodal Reasoning Matters for Vision-Language Tasks Multimodal reasoning enables models to make informed decisions and answer questions by combining both visual and textual information. This type of reasoning plays a central role in interpreting charts, answering image-based questions, and understanding complex visual documents. The goal is to make machines capable of using vision as…