Redesign Health, a company that builds, launches and finds funding for other healthcare startups, has closed a $175 million investment for a new fund focused on igniting the creation of healthcare companies.
Declaration Partners, Euclidean Capital and True North Advisors participated in the round.
WHAT IT DOES
Redesign has launched more than 60 health tech companies since its founding in 2018,...
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI has been issued its first patent by the U.S. Patent Office, which includes the company's LLM innovations incorporated into its safety-focused LLM built with a constellation architecture dubbed Polaris.
Hippocratic AI's generative AI solution focuses on nondiagnostic healthcare tasks such as medication onboarding and monthly reconciliation...
Researchers from South Korea have built machine learning-based models that can predict mood episodes using only sleep and circadian rhythm data from wearable devices.
The team comprised researchers from the Institute for Basic Sciences (IBS), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Korea University College of Medicine.
FINDINGS
In a study, which findings were published in...
Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially focused on dermatology, radiology and pathology.
Open-weight AI models are a type of black box AI technology that allows developers to apply and fine-tune a model for specific tasks, allowing them to...
A consortium of research institutes in South Korea has been formed to promote the utilisation of AI and national supercomputers in discovering novel drugs for treating lung cancer.
According to a press statement, the following organisations will collaborate to develop and test AI for identifying novel drug candidates and predicting its efficacy:
DAAN Cancer Research Institute under Yonsei...
Collaborative research in Asia has called for prudence in using popular large language model-based (LLM) chatbots as part of public health research and response.
In a study, which findings were published in BMJ, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, RMIT University in Vietnam, and the National University of Singapore explored whether or not LLMs bridge or exacerbate the digital...
Apple researchers have released a study highlighting the limitations of large language models (LLMs), concluding that LLMs' genuine logical reasoning is fragile and that there is "noticeable variance" in how models respond to different examples or representations of the same question.
The researchers analyzed the formal reasoning capabilities of LLMs, particularly in mathematics.
They noted...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it is collaborating with EvolutionaryScale, an AI company focused on biology, to give scientists and researchers access to the startup's ESM3 language models via AWS to advance drug discovery by allowing for the creation of new proteins.
Yesterday, EvolutionaryScale, founded by former researchers at Meta’s AI research lab, announced it secured $142 million...
Adonis, a healthcare revenue cycle intelligence and automation company, announced it secured $31 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raise to $54 million.
Point72 Private Investments led the round with participation from new investor Kin Ventures and existing investors General Catalyst, Max Ventures and Bling Capital.
WHAT IT DOES
Adonis provides revenue cycle technology to...
Google Research and Google DeepMind recently released a paper announcing the creation of a new LLM for drug discovery and therapeutic development dubbed Tx-LLM, fine-tuned from PaLM-2.
Tx-LLM utilizes the tech giant's PaLM-2, its generative AI technology that uses Google's LLMs to answer medical questions.
The drug discovery-focused LLM was trained using 709 datasets to target 66 tasks across...
