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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 11, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut a Month of Beamline Analysis to Roughly 15 Minutes
SAM 3 and DINOv3 run on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators at a Department of Energy computing center, segmenting X-ray and neutron imaging in real time for a flagship Genesis Mission project.
Meta's open-source vision models, Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) and DINOv3, are now running on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center as part of SYNAPS-I, a leading project under the Depa…
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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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