OpenBioLLM-8B

OpenBioLLM-8B was released in 2024 by Saama AI Labs as a biomedical language model fine-tuned from Meta Llama 3 8B. The team curated a custom dataset spanning over 3,000 healthcare topics and 10+ medical subjects with medical-expert input, then applied a two-phase fine-tuning process with Direct Preference Optimization.\n\nThe 70B sibling was reported to average 86.06% across nine biomedical datasets, and the 8B model was reported to outperform GPT-3.5 and Meditron-70B on biomedical benchmarks, though these are vendor-reported results. Weights carry the Meta Llama 3 community license terms.