# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-20T06:20:15.045Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-20/berkeley-lab-runs-meta-s-sam-3-and-dinov3-on-300-gpus-to-cut
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory](https://www.lbl.gov/genesis-mission/)

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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