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Medical LLM APIs scarce, users report on Reddit

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A user on Reddit's r/MachineLearning subreddit is inquiring about the availability of public APIs for medical-oriented Large Language Models (LLMs). They noted finding models like MedGemma and BioMistral on Hugging Face but observed that these models do not appear to offer accessible APIs, and the user wishes to avoid self-hosting. The core of the question is whether such specialized medical LLM APIs are indeed scarce or non-existent in the current market. AI

IMPACT Lack of accessible medical LLM APIs may hinder research and development in healthcare AI applications.

RANK_REASON User discussion on Reddit about the availability of specific AI products.

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Medical LLM APIs scarce, users report on Reddit

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Entrepreneur7962 ·

    Could it be that there aren’t really any medical LLM APIs available right now? [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>As part of my ablations, I want to generate text with a medical-oriented LLM, and I was surprised to find no exposed APIs for this kind of model.<br /> I found models like MedGemma and BioMistral on Hugging Face, but they don’t seem to offer publ…

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