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Morning Edition · Monday, August 24, 2026Published at 3:20 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Are Running Inside a United States Department of Energy Science Program
Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 on 300 accelerators at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center cut per-time-step image annotation from about a month of expert work to roughly 15 minutes.
Meta has described how two of its open-weight vision models are being used inside SYNAPS-I, a project under the United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission that is led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Argonne, Brookhav…
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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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