Morning Edition · Monday, September 7, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York

Berkeley Lab Runs Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 on Government GPUs, Cutting Beamline Annotation From a Month to 15 Minutes

The SYNAPS-I project under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission runs both open-weight vision models on 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators entirely inside federal infrastructure.

Meta described how two of its open-weight vision models are being used inside the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, the federal program to accelerate scientific discovery with AI. The project is SYNAPS-I, led by Lawrence Berkeley Nati…