Open-Source AI Tools Show Promise in Comparative Study

A paper published March 14 in JAMA Health Forum suggests that an open-source AI tool can perform as well as a proprietary closed-source model on complex diagnoses. This is significant, the researchers say, because “institutions may be able to deploy high-performing custom models that run locally without sacrificing data privacy or flexibility.”

The challenger open-source AI tool called Llama 3.1 405B performed on par with GPT-4, a leading proprietary closed-source model, on 92 mystifying…