🔥 New #AI Startups in 2026? 🔥

In 2026, which area would you focus on?
🤖Agents → workflows, copilots, etc.
🏭Vertical AI → Pharma, Automotive, Energy ...
🧠Infrastructure → MLOps, Security, Cost Control ...
🎨AI for Creators/Media → Video, avatars, contents ...

Please, help me understanding what's next with this poll on LinkedIn :)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visionarynet_ai-ai-deeplearning-activity-7415377341779996672-sQO1

LUV U \m/

🔥Orient Anything V2 is out🔥

👉Orient Anything V2 is a foundation model for unified understanding of object 3D orientation and rotation from single or paired images. Repo under CC-BY-4.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Ht7Xd
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05573
👉Project orient-anythingv2.github.io/
👉Repo github.com/SpatialVision/Orient-Anything-V2

🫛Active Object Reconstruction🫛

👉ObjSplat (Beijing) autonomously plans viewpoints and progressively reconstructs an unknown object into a Hi-Fi Gaussian model and water-tight mesh, enabling direct use in physics simulations. Tough paper and repo announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/au6HE
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06997
👉Project li-yuetao.github.io/ObjSplat-page/
👉Repo https://github.com/Li-Yuetao/ObjSplat

In 2026, who should we keep an eye on?

Vote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visionarynet_ai-deeplearning-aiwithpapers-activity-7416886610795077632-qQeP/

👉Games Workshop (Warhammer) is banning the use of AI in creative and design processes to protect IP and human creativity. A decision that goes against the current hype of widespread AI adoption.

And what about your organization? I need your help👇

Vote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visionarynet_ai-activity-7417106327019196417-TpGL

💚Segment Anything Geometry💚

👉3AM (NYCU + #Nvidia) offers cross-view correspondence even under large viewpoint changes, cluttered scenes, and variations in capture conditions, enabling robust object tracking from both videos & casual multi-view images. Repo (coming) & Demo available💙

👉Review https://t.ly/olZwE
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.08831
👉Project https://jayisaking.github.io/3AM-Page/
👉Repo https://github.com/jayisaking
👉Demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/nycu-cplab/3AM

🎇 Multi-target SAM3 🎇

👉SAM3-DMS is a novel training-free decoupled strategy that utilizes fine-grained memory selection on individual objects. Robust identity preservation and tracking stability. Repo under SAM License💙

👉Review https://t.ly/jJOAr
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.09699
👉Repo https://github.com/FudanCVL/SAM3-DMS

🍿100M Video Action Dataset🍿

👉Action100M by META is a large-scale dataset w/ 1.2M instructional videos (14.6 years of duration), yielding O(100M) temporally localized segments with open-vocabulary action supervision and rich captions. Repo under FAIR NC Research License💙

👉Review https://t.ly/w5KXe
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10592
👉Repo github.com/facebookresearch/Action100M

💜Interactive Humanoid Generation💜

👉FlowAct-R1 by ByteDance is a novel framework that enables lifelike, responsive, and high-fidelity humanoid video generation for seamless real-time interaction. No code but impressive results (see video with audio) 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/aQhol
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10103
👉Project grisoon.github.io/FlowAct-R1/

💢3D Human Gen-Seg💢

👉CoMoVi takes an input image with a text description and generates 3D human motion & video sequence synchronously within a single diffusion denoising loop. Repo & Dataset releasing💙

👉Review https://t.ly/khSkm
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10632
👉Project igl-hkust.github.io/CoMoVi/
👉Repo github.com/IGL-HKUST/CoMoVi
👉Data huggingface.co/datasets/AfterJourney/CoMoVi-Dataset

👹SOTA Part-level Generator👹

👉A novel a text-to-motion model that learns to compose complex motions through hierarchical conditioning on part-, action- & sequence-level text, enabling fine-grained control over body parts & timing. Code, models & Dataset to be released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/leB_R
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10909
👉Project coral79.github.io/frankenmotion/
👉Repo github.com/Coral79/FrankenMotion-Code

💚 #META 3D Casual Captures 💚

👉#META unveils ShapeR, a novel approach for conditional 3D object shape generation from casually captured sequences. Impressive results. Repo under CC BY-NC 4.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/j08sJ
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11514
👉Project facebookresearch.github.io/ShapeR/
👉Repo github.com/facebookresearch/ShapeR

💊Foundation Medical SAM3 💊

👉Medical SAM3: foundation model for universal prompt-driven medical image segmentation, by fully fine-tuning SAM3 on large-scale, heterogeneous 2D/3D medical imaging datasets with paired segmentation masks-text prompts. Repo & Demo announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/C6jcy
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10880
👉Project chongcongjiang.github.io/MedicalSAM3/#
👉Repo github.com/AIM-Research-Lab/Medical-SAM3

🦧Mask-Guided Matting🦧

👉VideoMaMa is novel a diffusion-based model that converts binary masks into continuous alpha mattes. Repo, Dataset & Demo💙

👉Review https://t.ly/l_0f8
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14255
👉Project cvlab-kaist.github.io/VideoMaMa
👉Repo github.com/cvlab-kaist/VideoMaMa
👉Demo huggingface.co/spaces/SammyLim/VideoMaMa

💜MoRo: Human Motion💜

👉Masked modeling for human motion Recovery under Occlusions. Given a monocular video captured from a static camera, MoRo (by ETHZ & META) robustly reconstructs accurate/physically plausible human motion, even under challenging occlusions. Repo released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/kK_je
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.16079
👉Project mikeqzy.github.io/MoRo/
👉Repo github.com/mikeqzy/MoRo

🔥 BBoxMaskPose v2 is fire 🔥

👉BBoxMaskPose v2 by ČVUT offers SOTA performance in detection, segmentation & 2D pose in crowded scenes. It enables 3D human reconstruction even in scenes with complex interactions. Code, Models & data available💙

👉Review https://t.ly/GkkDl
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15200
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dQ_3hxjC
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dVqwD3jN

🦠Generalized-Scale Counting🦠

👉GeCo2 (Ljubljana) is a novel e2e SOTA few-shot method that explicitly addresses the object scale issues. Repo & Demo 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/2_7I8
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08048
👉Repo https://github.com/jerpelhan/GECO2
👉Demo huggingface.co/spaces/jerpelhan/GECO2-demo

🔥🔥Super-Hard Poll folks🔥🔥

👉 This dilemma is driving me crazy. Vote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visionarynet_activity-7421974594917588992-YNAG

(and of course comment here)

🌻MLLMs Fine Segmentation🌻

👉SimpleSeg: MLLMs with native pixel-level perception. Repo & Model available💙

👉Review https://t.ly/eVguh
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2601.19228
👉Project simpleseg.github.io/
👉Repo github.com/songtianhui/SimpleSeg

🔥 DeepSeek-OCR 2 is out 🔥

👉DeepSeek-AI announced the new version of its powerful SOTA OCR. A new architectural approach with the potential to achieve genuine 2D reasoning. Codes & weights💙

👉Review https://t.ly/gX4bX
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20552
👉Repo github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2