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Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Cut a Month of Scientific Annotation to 15 Minutes at Berkeley Lab
A Department of Energy project pairs SAM 3 with DINOv3 across 300 Nvidia A100 accelerators to segment X-ray and neutron imaging data at the speed it is collected.
The first projects under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a national programme to speed scientific discovery with AI, are running on downloadable Meta models rather than a hosted frontier API. Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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