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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut Berkeley Lab Beamline Analysis From a Month to About 15 Minutes
Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 run on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center inside a Department of Energy program, keeping prepublication data on government hardware.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is running Meta's Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM) and DINOv3 on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), as part of the Department of Energy's Gen…
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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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