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Morning Edition · Monday, August 10, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut a Month of Beamline Annotation to Fifteen Minutes at Berkeley Lab
SAM 3 and DINOv3 run on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators inside a Department of Energy science project, and the same pair runs on battery-powered hardware in a $41.5 million assistive robotics program.
Two deployments published by Meta show where its open vision models are actually being used. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the segmentation model SAM 3 and the self-supervised representation model DINOv3 run on 300 Nvidia A100 a…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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