# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-18T06:27:34.772Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-18/meta-s-open-vision-models-are-being-used-to-cut-scientific-a
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- 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 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…

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