# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-25T06:22:14.083Z
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- 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/), [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory](https://www.lbl.gov/genesis-mission/partner-projects/)

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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