# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-01T05:44:51.300Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/)

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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