Morning Edition · Friday, August 28, 2026Published at 2:11 AM EDT · New York

Berkeley Lab Cuts Beamline Image Analysis From a Month to About 15 Minutes Using Meta's Open Vision Models

The SYNAPS-I project runs Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 across 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators, one of the first concrete results from the US Department of Energy's Genesis Mission.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using Meta's open vision models to shorten a step that had been the slowest part of X-ray and neutron science. The SYNAPS-I project, which Berkeley Lab leads in partnership with SLAC National Acceler…