Morning Edition · Sunday, July 26, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut US Energy Lab Data Analysis From a Month to 15 Minutes
Fine-tuned versions of Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3, running on 300 GPUs, anchor 13 Berkeley Lab projects under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission.
Meta and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory detailed the first projects under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, an initiative to accelerate science with AI. Meta's contribution is its open-source vision stack. These are fine-tu…
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