# Meta's Open Perception Models Now Run US National Laboratory Beamlines While Its Reasoning Model Sits Behind a Meter

Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 cut expert annotation of X-ray imaging data from weeks to about 15 minutes on 300 accelerators at Berkeley's supercomputing center.

- Published: 2026-08-31T06:23:05.714Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/)

Meta has detailed how its downloadable vision models are being used inside the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. In the SYNAPS-I project, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Argonne, Brookhaven, Oak Ridge and SLAC, Segme…

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