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Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

117 pointsby 8h agoscmp.com
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3h agoHN ↗

The model weights are only ~5GB, so this is small.

1h agoHN ↗

Approx ~131 million total. Made up of estimated:

102M - modified BERT-base-Chinese text encoder

26M - 3D U-Net-style vision/anatomy encoder

2.8M - projection layers, anatomy-specific projections, query tokens and attention layer

Written to run on something like an H100 though- as the CT Scan data is quite large.

4h agoHN ↗

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44693991 :

EPS3.9 also had significant anti-tumor effects in the mice with liver cancer and activated anti-tumor immune responses

“A Novel Exopolysaccharide, Highly Prevalent in Marine Spongiibacter, Triggers Pyroptosis to Exhibit Potent Anticancer Effects” (2025) DOI: 10.1096/fj.202500412R https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.2025004...

"A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604231 :

eCPMV VNPs + EPS3.9 + [...]

"Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474404

Notes re: Kidneys not Livers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460486 ; gh/topic/healthcare-ai

3h agoHN ↗

I much prefer Gemini. It tells me I'm very smart and almost always right.

8m agoHN ↗

I much prefer load-bearing discussions myself.

2h agoHN ↗

I'm wonder when there will be model for predict future. Could be named "Crystal bAill"

1h agoHN ↗

Isn't detecting cancer predicting a possible future? Hopefully one you can change.

1h agoHN ↗

model [to] predict future

The attempt is already there: "predicting the future" is called "intelligence".