Medical Xpress March 15, 2025
Artificial intelligence can transform medicine in a myriad of ways, including its promise to act as a trusted diagnostic aide to busy clinicians.
Over the past two years, proprietary AI models, also known as closed-source models, have excelled at solving hard-to-crack medical cases that require complex clinical reasoning. Notably, these closed-source AI models have outperformed open-source ones, so-called because their source code is publicly available and can be tweaked and modified by anyone.
Has open-source AI caught up?
The answer appears to be yes, at least when it comes to one such open-source AI model, according to the findings of a new NIH-funded study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and done in collaboration with clinicians at Harvard-affiliated Beth...