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Image as a Foreign Language: BEiT Pretraining for All Vision and Vision-LanguageTasks

BEiT-3: Teaching AI to Read Pictures Like a Language

Meet BEiT-3, a new AI that learns pictures kind of like words.
It learn images and text together, so the machine can look at a photo and also understand a short sentence about it.
Because it studies both, the same system can do many jobs: it finds objects in photos, splits a scene into parts, names what's in a picture, answers questions about images and even finds matching photos and captions.
This approach treats pictures like a simple language — call it images as language — and that helps the AI connect sight and words faster, with less fuss.
Instead of having separate tools for each job, one shared brain handles them, which means one model can replace many old systems.
The result is a smarter helper for everyday photo tasks, from sorting your albums to helping apps describe images.
People will see clearer captions, better answers to photo questions, and smoother search.
It's a step toward computers that really get what they see, doing many tasks without needing lots of different models.

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