Morning Edition · Friday, October 9, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York

Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 Cut Beamline Image Analysis at Five US National Labs From a Month to About 15 Minutes

Meta says the open vision models run on 300 A100 GPUs inside the Energy Department's Genesis Mission, and the department announced new Genesis awards on Thursday.

Meta says its open vision models, Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) and DINOv3, now run the segmentation pipeline in SYNAPS-I. SYNAPS-I is a project in the Energy Department's Genesis Mission led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, wit…