🩺 Med-Gemini

🧵 In today's edition:

• 🩺 Med-Gemini

• 📱 Anthropic takes the leap

• 💰️ Amazon Q’s general launch

• 🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

• 🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

🩺 Med-Gemini

Google just unveiled its new Med-Gemini family—a set of models focused specifically on the medical domain that outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4 on various medical benchmarks.

Here’s the TL;DR: 

• The Med-Gemini models build upon Google's previous Gemini 1.0 and 1.5 large language models. 

• There are four versions - Med-Gemini-S 1.0, Med-Gemini-M 1.0, Med-Gemini-L 1.0, and Med-Gemini-M 1.5. They can generate text, images, and video outputs related to medical topics.

• Their key capability is improved long-context processing, which allows the models to better analyze long medical records and research papers and provide more accurate answers. 

• Google says the models integrate web search abilities that were enhanced through self-training to be "more factually accurate, reliable, and nuanced" for complex clinical reasoning.

• In benchmark testing, the Med-Gemini-L 1.0 model scored 91.1% accuracy on the medical MedQA (USMLE) dataset, outperforming GPT-4 and Google's older Med-PaLM 2 model. 

• On the GeneTuring reasoning test, Med-Gemini also surpassed GPT-4's performance.

Overall: While not publicly available yet, Google's Chief Scientist expressed excitement about Med-Gemini's potential to help clinicians deliver better care and help patients understand medical conditions better.

Read more: Gadgets 360

📱 Anthropic takes the leap

Anthropic recently made two major announcements: the launch of the Claude iOS app and the introduction of the new Claude Team plan for collaborative AI usage.

iOS App:

The Claude iOS app brings Claude's AI capabilities directly to iPhones. Its key features include:

• Seamless synchronization with existing web-based chats,

• The ability to use photos and upload files for vision analysis, and

• Free access for users on any Claude pricing plan.

Team Plan:

• The new Claude Team plan is designed for teams seeking to collaboratively utilize Claude's abilities for research, analysis, coding, and more.

• The Team plan offers increased usage limits compared to individual Pro plans, access to the high-powered Claude 3 model family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), a 200k token context window for processing long documents, centralized admin and billing tools, and all existing Pro plan benefits.

Looking Ahead: In the coming weeks, Anthropic will introduce new collaboration capabilities for Team plan users. These additions will include AI-generated content citations from reliable sources, integrations with data sources like codebases and CRMs, and the ability for colleagues to refine AI-generated deliverables—all with robust security standards jointly.

Read more: The Verge

💰️ Amazon Q’s general launch

Amazon just announced the general availability of Amazon Q, its powerful General AI assistant for businesses and developers. This assistant aids in boosting productivity by tackling a wide array of tasks using advanced AI capabilities.

For developers:

• Amazon Q Developer accelerates the entire software development lifecycle.

• It generates highly accurate code, tests it, debugs issues, plans and reasons about multi-step implementation, and can even upgrade and optimize existing applications.

• Early estimates suggest that Amazon Q could enhance developer productivity by over 80%.

For businesses:

• Amazon Q Business enables employees to extract more value from their company's data repositories.

• It answers questions, generates summaries and reports, and completes tasks by securely accessing and reasoning over enterprise data sources such as policies, product information, business metrics, etc.

• Q is also integrated with Amazon's QuickSight BI tool, allowing users to build visualizations using natural language.

But that’s not all:

• A new feature, Amazon Q Apps, allows employees without coding experience to build custom GenAI apps for their workplace by describing the desired functionality in natural language.

• To prepare the workforce, Amazon has launched free self-paced training courses on Amazon Q as part of their "AI Ready" initiative, aiming to train 2 million people in AI skills by 2025.

Overall: Amazon executives emphasize how Q can "reimagine the developer experience" and assist employees to "boost productivity with generative AI," encouraging customers to leverage Amazon Q's capabilities for significant productivity gains.

Read more: Amazon Blog

🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• PitchPower: Draft winning proposals tailored to your clients in seconds using AI. Check it out!

• Bloc: Effortlessly create and share a chatbot and use it for sales, customer support, or skimming through long content. Check it out!

• Sphere: Scan a space with your phone and let AI create a photorealistic 3D tour. Check it out!

🤑 AI Fundraising News

• CoreWeave raised $1.1B in funding. The company is a cloud infrastructure startup that rents graphics processing units to companies.

• Blaize raises $106M in funding to offer computing solutions in automotive, mobility, smart retail, security, industrial, and metro market sectors.

🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

Long watch, but a great watch!! 🧑‍💻