# Berkeley Lab Cuts Beamline Image Analysis From a Month to About 15 Minutes With Meta's Open Vision Models

Fine-tuned SAM 3 and DINOv3 run across 300 A100 GPUs inside a Department of Energy project, enabling 3D reconstruction while experiments are still running.

- Published: 2026-10-02T06:31:19.109Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-02/berkeley-lab-cuts-beamline-image-analysis-from-a-month-to-ab
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- 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/)

A multi-laboratory project under the Department of Energy's (DOE) Genesis Mission is using two of Meta's open vision models as the core of its image-analysis pipeline. SYNAPS-I, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Argonne, Bro…

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