Tether Launches Medical AI Models That Run on Phones and Beat Larger Systems

TLDR: Tether 1.7B model beat Google’s MedGemma-4B by 11+ points despite being less than half the size. The 4B model cuts token output by 3.2x, reducing compute costs and enabling faster on-device responses. QVAC MedPsy runs fully local in GGUF format, keeping sensitive patient data off remote cloud servers. Models were tested across eight benchmarks, [...]

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