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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 8, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut Beamline Image Analysis From a Month to Fifteen Minutes at Berkeley Lab
SAM 3 and DINOv3, fine-tuned on scientific imaging and run across 300 A100 accelerators, now segment X-ray and neutron facility data in real time for a Department of Energy project.
A project called SYNAPS-I, run under the United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission and led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Argonne, Brookhaven, Oak Ridge, and SLAC, is using two of Meta's open-weight vision models t…
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