Meta to give five U.S. universities $2 million in grants and access to its models for medical and scientific projects
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Meta is giving universities its models and glasses to test ideas in medicine and science.
According to Meta, the partners are the California Institute of Technology, the Ohio State University College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University and UTHealth Houston. Meta is providing "$2 million in grants" and access to its latest models, open-weight SAM models, SI glasses and mixed reality headsets. The projects span medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and mathematics; the medical ones include monitoring infant tracheostomy tube displacement, conversational SI for dementia care, and predicting heart failure risk from imaging and clinical data.
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