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Palmyra Med 70B

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Writer · Palmyra family · released Jul 31, 2024

Healthcare specialist; zero-shot 85.9% avg across 9 biomedical benchmarks beats Med-PaLM-2's 5-shot 84%.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
1333.2
Elo · unrated
Parameters
70B
Active params
70B (dense)
Context
8K tokens
Architecture
Dense Transformer fine-tuned from Palmyra-X-003 (~70B) via DPO on biomedical instructions
License
Writer Open Model License (non-commercial, research use)
Languages
1+
API price (in/out)
No hosted API
Modalities
text
Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
MMLU: AnatomyKnowledge83.7%#1
best: this model · 83.7%
MMLU: Clinical KnowledgeKnowledge90.9%#1
best: this model · 90.9%
MMLU: Medical GeneticsKnowledge94.0%#1
best: this model · 94.0%
PubMedQAKnowledge79.6%#1
best: this model · 79.6%
Run it locally
VRAM @ Q4
42 GB
VRAM @ FP16
140 GB
Fits on (Q4)
M3 Max 128GBM3 Ultra 512GBA100 80GBH100 80GBH200 141GBB200 192GB
Throughput data unavailable.
Quantizations
GGUF
Palmyra family
Elo progression across releases
Palmyra Med 70BJul 20241333.2
Resources
HFWriter/Palmyra-Med-70BDOCSdocs.api.nvidia.comAPIAvailable via Writer API
API price weights · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)