# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-12T06:23:24.914Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/)

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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