ByteDance: ByteTrack

Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.

Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.

SAM 2 is a real-time image and video segmentation model developed by Meta AI, released in July 2024 under the Apache 2.0 license. It extends the original Segment Anything Model to support video inputs by introducing a streaming memory architecture that maintains object state across frames, enabling consistent segmentation of objects through occlusion, motion, and scene changes. For image inputs, SAM 2 operates similarly to its predecessor with improved mask quality and speed.SAM 2 accepts point, box, and mask prompts and produces object masks interactively or in a fully automated mode. Its memory architecture enables video segmentation at real-time speeds. SAM 2 is used in annotation pipelines, video analysis, robotic perception, and any application requiring high-quality promptable segmentation across both images and video.

YOLO11 is an object detection and multi-task vision model developed by Ultralytics, released in September 2024 under the AGPL-3.0 license. It is the latest generation in the Ultralytics YOLO series and supports object detection, instance segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, and oriented bounding box detection within a single unified framework. YOLO11 introduces architectural refinements that improve accuracy while reducing parameter count compared to YOLOv8 at equivalent model sizes.YOLO11 is available in five model sizes from Nano to Extra Large and is deployable through the Ultralytics Python package, Roboflow Inference, and export formats including ONNX, TensorRT, and CoreML. It supports fine-tuning on custom datasets through the standard Ultralytics training API.

RF-DETR is a real-time transformer-based object detection model developed by Roboflow, with code and weights first released in March 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. It is the first real-time model to exceed 60 AP on the Microsoft COCO benchmark, built on a DINOv2 vision transformer backbone with weight-sharing neural architecture search used to identify accuracy-latency trade-offs. The full family spans six sizes from Nano (30.5M parameters, 384×384 input) to 2XL (126.9M parameters, 880×880 input), with the accompanying research paper accepted to ICLR 2026.RF-DETR is designed for strong domain adaptability, achieving state-of-the-art performance on RF100-VL, a benchmark measuring generalization to real-world object detection tasks across diverse domains. It is deployable through Roboflow Inference and supports fine-tuning on custom datasets, making it well suited for domain-specific applications with limited training data.