# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-28T06:11:21.137Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-28/berkeley-lab-cuts-beamline-image-analysis-from-a-month-to-ab
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- 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/)

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…

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