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Already, agencies like NASA are using DinoV3 for Mars rover vision to reduce computational load, while the World Resources Institute improved tree measurement accuracy in Kenya by 70% using this tech. The scale of the improvements—from training data increases to parameter growth—makes DinoV3 a versatile and powerful tool. Its ability to "walk into" new environments and instantly understand complex scenes hints at robots that could, in the future, function as truly general-purpose helpers across various sectors.
Google's Gemma 3: Compact and Efficient AI on Your Phone
While Meta scaled up, Google was busy making AI smaller and more efficient, with the launch of Gemma 3, a 270 million parameter model designed for specificity and portability.