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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 11, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab Puts Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 at the Center of a Genesis Mission Imaging Pipeline, Cutting Analysis From a Month to 15 Minutes
The multi-lab SYNAPS-I project runs fine-tuned versions of the open models on 300 A100 GPUs at national laboratory sites, starting with drought tracking in grapevine micro-CT scans.
Meta says its open vision models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects, the Department of Energy (DOE) program for AI in science. The flagship project is SYNAPS-I (Synergistic Neutron and Photon Science Intelligence). Berk…
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