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How Molmo 2’s open release helped an MIT researcher rethink fish tracking

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Molmo 2’s open release helped MIT researcher Kai Van Brunt develop Molmo2Fish, an experimental model that tracks salmon in sonar footage and corrects some tracking errors using everyday language.

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