# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-22T06:23:26.061Z
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- 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 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…

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