# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-11T06:16:05.908Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Google Research](https://research.google/research-areas/google-earth-ai/)

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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