# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-08T06:26:48.459Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Berkeley Lab News Center](https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/07/22/berkeley-lab-to-lead-13-new-genesis-mission-ai-projects/), [TechTimes](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321456/20260724/meta-open-source-ai-cuts-doe-beamline-analysis-month-minutes.htm)

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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