Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
scmp.com118 points by yogthos 9 hours ago
118 points by yogthos 9 hours ago
I much prefer Gemini. It tells me I'm very smart and almost always right.
I'm wonder when there will be model for predict future. Could be named "Crystal bAill"
> model [to] predict future
The attempt is already there: "predicting the future" is called "intelligence".
Isn't detecting cancer predicting a possible future? Hopefully one you can change.
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
Anyone know how many parameters?
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.
ScholarlyArticle: "Large-scale AI-guided liver malignancy diagnosis: multicenter study and a single-arm trial" (2026) Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04589-y
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In communism, man exploits man. In capitalism, it's the other way around.
Fortunately, we now have AI to come along and launder the responsibility for exploitation through.
Now we have AI exploiting us. Look at us race to digitize everything and feed it into ever rising oceans of context, to build infrastructure for its rapid expansion, confident that we can’t stop because we can’t all stop; we’re just humans. All we have to do is stop. And we can’t. That will end up not in our extinction, but in our ever increasing subjugation, both of freedoms and spirit.