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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab Cuts Beamline Image Analysis From a Month to Minutes Using Meta's Open Vision Models
The SYNAPS-I project runs Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 across 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators to segment X-ray and neutron imaging data.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using two of Meta's open-source vision models inside the United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, and the reported speed gain is the notable part. The SYNAPS-I project, which Berkeley La…
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