Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects

The scoop: X-ray imaging of various strictures for scientific purposes produces colossal reams of data, previously hard to analyze. Meta provides machine analysis, both segmentation and classification, using unsupervised learning models.

> a fully reconstructed, semantically labeled 3D volume delivered back to the scientist physically standing at the beamline [x-ray] instrument, ready for interpretation while the experiment is still running. Total turnaround: approximately 15 minutes.

Re: Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects

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Post by abirch » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

jyr0s wrote: post #2

this page hijacks your tab's back button history :\

Well Meta has hijacked my privacy. Now IRL Meta can track me from the people wearing their sunglasses.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

Zaheer wrote: post #3

This fits with my impression of the 'personality' of various models: Meta: Perceptive (strong vision) Gemini: Fastest Claude: Smartest OpenAI: Prettiest

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Post by economistbob » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

Zaheer wrote: post #3

This fits with my impression of the 'personality' of various models: Meta: Perceptive (strong vision) Gemini: Fastest Claude: Smartest OpenAI: Prettiest

Qwen: Zestiest

Nemo: Straightest

DeepSeek: Craftiest

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Post by iLoveOncall » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

So, not LLM models, right?

Also on this:

> The numbers are staggering: The DOE's light and neutron source facilities now produce tens of petabytes of data annually

Come on, petabytes are not staggering for entreprise software.

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Post by munk-a » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

economistbob wrote: post #7

Zaheer wrote: post #3

This fits with my impression of the 'personality' of various models: Meta: Perceptive (strong vision) Gemini: Fastest Claude: Smartest OpenAI: Prettiest

Qwen: Zestiest Nemo: Straightest DeepSeek: Craftiest

And, of course, Grok: Sir-not-appearing-in-this-listest

Re: Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects

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Post by munk-a » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

iLoveOncall wrote: post #8

So, not LLM models, right? Also on this: > The numbers are staggering: The DOE's light and neutron source facilities now produce tens of petabytes of data annually Come on, petabytes are not staggering for entreprise software.

I used to work with images representing scans of brain tissue - for a full brain visualization at one horizontal slice terabytes was a common measure and the resolution of those images wasn't even particularly detailed - all the full resolution stuff was taken of tiny sub-sections of interest. This was also two decades ago - so I'm sure they've upped their game.