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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 20, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab Runs Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 on 300 GPUs to Cut Beamline Annotation From a Month to 15 Minutes
The SYNAPS-I project under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission pairs self-supervised features with pixel-level segmentation to process the tens of petabytes produced yearly at light and neutron sources.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using Meta's open-weight SAM 3 and DINOv3 models inside SYNAPS-I, a flagship project of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, which coordinates AI work across the national laboratory system. Th…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
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