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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 12, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Enter United States National Laboratory Science Projects
Segment Anything and DINO are being used in the first wave of Genesis Mission work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and in assistive robotics research at the University of Pittsburgh.
Meta has described two deployments of its openly released vision models outside the company. The first is at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where Segment Anything and DINO are being used in the first wave of projects under the Genes…
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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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