Medical image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in modern healthcare. Every pixel in a scan tells a story, whether it marks a healthy cell, a cancerous growth, or a vital organ boundary.

According to a blog post from Meta, SAM is an image segmentation model that can respond to text prompts or user clicks to isolate specific objects within an image.

Google's newly open-sourced AI image segmentation systems and models are optimized for its cloud TPU hardware, the company says.

Users can now try out Meta’s new AI-powered promptable 'Segment Anything Model' that’s based on a 1-billion-strong mask dataset.