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On 2026-04-23 @sainingxie posted that this was the last project they worked on at…
Brief
Saining Xie (/@sainingxie) announced on 2026-04-23 that his final project at GDM has been released: starting from nanobanana 1’s zero-shot perception strengths, the team — notably @vgabeur, @shangbanglong, and @songyoupeng — used post-training to push capabilities toward (and potentially beyond) expert systems like SAM3 and DA3, aiming to open new research directions rather than chase leaderboard rankings.
Why it matters
On 2026-04-23 @sainingxie posted that this was the last project they worked on at GDM before leaving and that the release is out; the project’s goal was not to top image-generation leaderboards.
Key details
- The team observed nanobanana 1 could perform perception tasks zero-shot but it was unclear if it could beat expert systems SAM3 or DA3; @vgabeur, @shangbanglong, and @songyoupeng led post-training work that pushed those capabilities and “suggests a new paradigm.”
- The group deliberately prioritized research beyond Elo/leaderboard competition, focusing on rethinking old problems and signaling there is more work to pursue.