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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 23, 2026Published at 2:19 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut a Month of Beamline Annotation to Fifteen Minutes at Berkeley Lab
Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 run on 300 Nvidia A100s at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center inside the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission.
X-ray and neutron imaging produces more data than anyone can label. Until recently, a single time step of a beamline experiment took a human expert roughly a month to annotate, which meant that scientists analyzed a small sample of what the…
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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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