
I tried it out using a few crowded images, such as a photo of Lego’s massive Rivendell set. The demo system offers a kind of Photoshop’s ‘Magic Wand’ tool on steroids. In my own tests of the Segment Anything demo, Meta has gone a step further with its own offering. There’s quite a few good apps for erasing unwanted objects from images, and all of them already employ AI models to find and replace objects in photos.


Here’s the kicker, Meta is releasing it to anybody by making its new software open source. To make a bit of a splash, on Wednesday the company showed off its new AI-based Segment Anything Model that’s surprisingly capable of identifying and separating specific objects in images and video. Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google.
