# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-24T07:20:23.472Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Berkeley Lab News Center](https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/07/22/berkeley-lab-to-lead-13-new-genesis-mission-ai-projects/), [Tech Times](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321456/20260724/meta-open-source-ai-cuts-doe-beamline-analysis-month-minutes.htm)

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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