# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-07T06:22:00.097Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-07/berkeley-lab-runs-meta-s-sam-3-and-dinov3-on-government-gpus
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/)

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…

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