Morning Edition · Saturday, August 1, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Meta Puts Its Vision Foundation Models Into the US Government's Genesis Mission Science Push
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is applying Meta's Segment Anything and DINO models to early projects under the federal scientific-discovery program.
Meta says its open vision foundation models, Segment Anything (SAM) and the self-supervised DINO family, are powering early projects under the Genesis Mission, a United States federal effort to apply AI to scientific discovery, in collabora…
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