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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 26, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab Cuts Beamline Annotation From a Month to 15 Minutes With Meta's Open SAM 3 and DINOv3
The Department of Energy's SYNAPS-I project fine-tunes the open-weight vision models on 300 A100 GPUs inside secure facility environments, handling tens of petabytes a year.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is running Meta's open-weight SAM 3 and DINOv3 models inside SYNAPS-I, a multi-laboratory project under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission that aims to turn X-ray and neutron science data into r…
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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs
Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.
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