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Morning Edition · Monday, October 19, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab uses Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 to cut 3D labeling of X-ray and neutron data from a month to about 15 minutes
The pipeline belongs to SYNAPS-I, a five-laboratory project under the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, in which Berkeley Lab leads 13 new AI projects.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using two of Meta's open vision models, Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) and DINOv3, to automate image segmentation for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Genesis Mission, Meta said. The work sits insi…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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