Morning Edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York

Meta's Open-Weight SAM 3 and DINOv3 Cut Berkeley Lab Beamline Analysis From About a Month to 15 Minutes

The Energy Department's Genesis Mission runs the models on 300 A100 GPUs at its national supercomputing center, and the University of Pittsburgh is building them into a robotic wheelchair project funded with up to $41.5 million.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using two Meta open-weight vision models, Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) and DINOv3, as the core of the segmentation pipeline in SYNAPS-I, one of the first projects under the Energy Department's Ge…