Morning Edition · Sunday, August 16, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York

Berkeley Lab Cuts X-Ray Image Segmentation From Weeks to Roughly 15 Minutes Using Meta's Open Vision Models

SAM 3 and DINOv3, fine-tuned on scientific imaging and served across 300 A100 accelerators, now return fully segmented three-dimensional volumes to researchers at the beamline.

A United States Department of Energy project called SYNAPS-I is running Meta's open-weight SAM 3 and DINOv3 models to segment X-ray and neutron imaging data in near real time. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory leads the effort with Argo…