Google DeepMind · Visual Understanding
Vision Banana
Unified model that combines image generation and visual understanding, demonstrating that generative vision pretraining is an effective paradigm for understanding tasks. A single model handles semantic segmentation, depth estimation, and surface normals via image generation as a universal interface.
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