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Falcon Perception

AnnouncementModelApr 1, 2026

Falcon Perception is a 0.6B-parameter early-fusion Transformer for open-vocabulary grounding and segmentation that achieves 68.0 Macro-F1 on SA-Co, outperforming SAM 3's 62.3. tiiuae also released Falcon-OCR, a 0.3B-parameter model scoring 80.3 on olmOCR and 88.6 on OmniDocBench, claiming the highest throughput among open-source OCR models. Hugging Face hosted the announcement.

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Canonical: https://huggingface.co/blog/tiiuae/falcon-perception