# Berkeley Lab Cuts Beamline Image Analysis From About a Month to 15 Minutes Using Meta's Open SAM 3 and DINOv3

The SYNAPS-I pipeline at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source runs on 300 Nvidia A100 GPUs at the national lab supercomputing center, and Meta is publishing a matching case study in assistive robotics.

- Published: 2026-10-21T06:08:03.066Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-21/berkeley-lab-cuts-beamline-image-analysis-from-about-a-month
- 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/)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using two open Meta vision models in one of the first projects under the US Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, Meta reports. The project, SYNAPS-I (SYnergistic Neutron And Photon Science – Intel…

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