Ep 35: Google DeepMind's Vision Banana shows image generation pretraining may be the true foundation model path for computer vision, beating SAM 3 on segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on metric depth.

**HOOK:** Google DeepMind's Vision Banana shows image generation pretraining may be the true foundation model path for computer vision, beating SAM 3 on segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on metric depth. **What You Need to Know:** DeepMind argues convincingly that generative pretraining for images delivers the same leap for vision that GPT-style pretraining delivered for language, with strong benchmark results to back it. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio production.