Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions(www.scmp.com)

118 pointsby yogthos9 hours ago6 comments

ElProlactin4 hours ago
I much prefer Gemini. It tells me I'm very smart and almost always right.
- pixel_poppingan hour ago
  I much prefer load-bearing discussions myself.
t0bia_s3 hours ago
I'm wonder when there will be model for predict future. Could be named "Crystal bAill"
- mdp20212 hours ago
  > model [to] predict future
  The attempt is already there: "predicting the future" is called "intelligence".
- pizzly2 hours ago
  Isn't detecting cancer predicting a possible future? Hopefully one you can change.
westurner5 hours ago
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
K0balt6 hours ago
Anyone know how many parameters?
- UnboundedContex2 hours ago
  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.
- anon3738394 hours ago
  The model weights are only ~5GB, so this is small.
westurner6 hours ago
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
Source: https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/damo-radar
Model: https://huggingface.co/radar-generalist
cyanydeez8 hours ago
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- Bolwin7 hours ago
  Alibaba is entirely capitalistic I'm afraid
- netsharc8 hours ago
  In communism, man exploits man. In capitalism, it's the other way around.
  - fragmede7 hours ago
    Fortunately, we now have AI to come along and launder the responsibility for exploitation through.
    reilly30007 hours ago
    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.
    hgoel7 hours ago
    Nope, still just humans exploiting humans.