Morning Edition · Friday, September 18, 2026Published at 2:27 AM EDT · New York

Meta's Open Vision Models Are Being Used to Cut Scientific Annotation From a Month to Minutes

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory pairs DINOv3 with Segment Anything for imaging data at Department of Energy facilities, while a University of Pittsburgh project runs the same models on edge devices for assistive robots.

Meta published two deployment accounts for its open vision models that describe the same technical pattern: self-supervised representations from DINOv3 combined with pixel-level segmentation from the Segment Anything Model, applied to domai…