TII has released Falcon Perception, a 600M-parameter early-fusion Transformer that processes image and text tokens together from the first layer. The model handles open-vocabulary grounding and segmentation tasks in a single unified architecture, departing from the typical modular approach where vision encoders and language models work separately. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/03/tii-releases-falcon-perception-a-0-6b-parameter-early-fusion-transformer-for-open-vocabulary-grounding-and-segmentation-from-natural-language-prompts/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch #TII