Morning Edition · Sunday, August 30, 2026Published at 2:24 AM EDT · New York

Berkeley Lab Runs Meta's Open Vision Models Across 300 GPUs to Cut Beamline Analysis From a Month to Minutes

The SYNAPS-I project uses SAM 3 and DINOv3 on Department of Energy infrastructure, replacing expert image annotation that previously took weeks per dataset.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is running Meta's open vision models inside the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, and has published the first results. The project, SYNAPS-I, runs with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and tar…