Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 8, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York

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

Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 now handle image segmentation for X-ray and neutron science under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, replacing work that took a month of expert annotation per time step.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is running two of Meta's open-weight vision models, Segment Anything Model 3 and DINOv3, on 300 NVIDIA A100 graphics processors at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. The work sits…