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Morning Edition · Monday, August 17, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab Cuts Beamline Analysis From a Month to Minutes Using Open Vision Models
Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 run on 300 NVIDIA A100 accelerators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of the United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission.
The United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission is a national initiative to accelerate scientific discovery with artificial intelligence, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory leads thirteen of its projects. One of them, SYNAPS…
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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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