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UAE's TIIUAE releases Falcon Perception: 0.6B early-fusion model for open-vocabulary grounding
TIIUAE has released Falcon Perception, a 0.6B-parameter early-fusion Transformer that combines image patches and text in a single sequence for open-vocabulary object grounding and segmentation. The model achieves 68.0 Macro-F1 on SA-Co (vs. 62.3 for SAM 3) and introduces PBench, a diagnostic benchmark that isolates performance across five capability levels. TIIUAE also released Falcon OCR, a 0.3B model reaching 80.3 on olmOCR and 88.6 on OmniDocBench.
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