Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 27, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York

Berkeley Lab runs Meta's open-weight vision models on 300 graphics processors to cut beamline image analysis from a month to 15 minutes

The Department of Energy's SYNAPS-I project uses Segment Anything 3 and DINOv3 across five national laboratories, with the models running on the operator's own infrastructure.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is running Meta's open-weight perception models inside a Department of Energy science pipeline. The project, described by Meta, is called SYNAPS-I and is led by Berkeley Lab with Argonne, Brookhaven, Oa…