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Meta Llama 3 on NVIDIA Boosts Healthcare Innovation with Open-Source AI

by Jasmine Pennic 06/04/2024 Leave a Comment

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What You Should Know: 

– Meta’s open-source large language model, Meta Llama 3, is making significant waves in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. This cutting-edge technology, trained and optimized using NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, is empowering researchers, developers, and companies to create innovative applications aimed at improving patient lives.

– With Meta Llama 3’s open-source accessibility and NVIDIA’s powerful computing platform, the possibilities for AI-driven advancements in healthcare seem limitless. 

Llama 3: Accessible and Powerful AI for Healthcare

Available as a downloadable NVIDIA NIM (inference microservice) on https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/, Llama 3 offers a user-friendly platform for healthcare professionals. With a standardized application programming interface (API), it can be easily integrated into various existing systems.

This powerful tool allows developers to build and deploy generative AI models for a wide range of applications, including:

  • Surgical planning
  • Digital assistants
  • Drug discovery
  • Clinical trial optimization

Revolutionizing Healthcare with Real-World Applications

At the recent COMPUTEX tech event, NVIDIA announced that hundreds of companies are already integrating the Llama 3 NIM into their solutions. Notably, over 40 healthcare and life science startups and enterprises are leveraging this technology to accelerate advancements in:

  • Digital biology
  • Digital surgery
  • Digital health

Transforming Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials:

Techbio companies and life science platforms are utilizing Llama 3 NIM alongside NVIDIA BioNeMo for generative biology, chemistry, and molecular prediction. This powerful combination allows researchers to build comprehensive workflows for drug discovery and clinical trials, ultimately accelerating the development of life-saving treatments.

Examples of companies making strides in this area include:

  • Deloitte: Utilizing Llama 3 and BioNeMo in their Atlas AI drug discovery accelerator to gain data-driven insights for research, chemical property prediction, and drug repurposing.
  • Transcripta Bio: Harnessing Llama 3 and BioNeMo to advance intelligent drug discovery through their Conductor AI platform, which predicts drug effects at a massive scale.

Optimizing Clinical Research and Patient Care:

Several companies are focusing on using Llama 3 NIM to improve clinical research and patient care. These efforts include:

  • Quantiphi: Developing AI solutions for clinical research, diagnostics, and patient care, aiming to reduce costs, enhance productivity, and improve patient outcomes.
  • ConcertAI: Integrating Llama 3 NIM into their CARA AI platform to improve patient matching for clinical trials, automate studies, and offer real-time insights for researchers.
  • Mendel AI: Creating clinically focused AI solutions with Llama 3, offering a 36% performance improvement in their Hypercube copilot and exploring applications for extracting information from patient records.

Enhancing Surgical Precision and Patient Safety:

The world of surgery is also benefiting from Llama 3. Activ Surgical is leveraging this technology to develop their AI copilot and augmented reality solution, ActivSight. This innovative tool provides surgeons with real-time insights into critical physiological data, potentially reducing surgical complications and improving patient safety.

Revolutionizing Digital Health Interactions:

The power of generative AI extends to the realm of digital health. Companies like SimBioSys, Artisight, AITEM, and Abridge are all utilizing Llama 3 to develop applications that:

  • Personalize patient care
  • Automate documentation and care coordination
  • Build healthcare-specific chatbots
  • Summarize physician-patient encounters
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