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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 6, 2026Published at 2:32 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab Runs Meta's Open Vision Models Inside a Department of Energy Science Program
Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators cut image segmentation that took a month of expert annotation per time step down to about 15 minutes.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is running Meta's open-source vision models inside SYNAPS-I, a flagship project of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission led by Berkeley Lab with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The project t…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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