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The Hippo AI Foundation makes medical knowledge gained through AI from data donations freely available. The open-source approach seeks to share more data and AI building blocks as a digital commons.

The EU is Headed for 'Slow Agony' Unless We Radically Change Course

After a year of preparation and countless interviews, Mario Draghi has presented his much-anticipated report on the future of European competitiveness. In the 400-page document, the former ECB president provides a detailed analysis of why the EU continues to lag behind the US and China. During the presentation, he starkly

Open Source AI dialogues #2

Hello and welcome! I'm thrilled to have you here as we embark on this exciting journey exploring the intersection of open-source AI and medicine. My name is Bart de Witte, and I've been immersed in the health technology industry for over 20 years. Throughout this time,

How Telegram Became the Battlefield for Democracy and Deception!

Dear readers, I originally hesitated to include this piece in my newsletter, but after sharing it on social media and receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback, I felt compelled to share it here as well. I believe it’s a conversation worth having, and I would greatly appreciate it if you could

Communist AI vs Liberal AI

Dear readers, I came across a commentary by the well-known professor Prof. Dr. med. Torsten Haferlach on an essay by Evgeny Morozov in Le Monde diplomatique and felt the need to comment on it and hopefully continue the important dialog. I would appreciate it if you would share or spread

Open Source AI dialogues #1

Hello and welcome! I'm thrilled to have you here as we embark on this exciting journey exploring the intersection of open-source AI and medicine. My name is Bart de Witte, and I've been immersed in the health technology industry for over 20 years. Throughout this time,

Is Open-Source AI the Cure for Cancer? Groundbreaking Models Released for Free -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #28

Navigating the near future: an insider's perspective. Dear Hippogram readers, As I predicted earlier this year, the open-source movement is dramatically "infecting" the AI development landscape in healthcare, particularly in pathology. Several innovative startups and established companies are now releasing powerful open-source AI models, making groundbreaking

Meta's Strategy for Open-Sourcing LLaMa: A Detailed Analysis -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #27

Intro In the past few weeks, I've encountered various perspectives on Meta's strategy for advancing their frontier large language model (LLM), Llama 3.1. This model, with capabilities comparable to GPT-4 and Claude 3.5, is now publicly available for the first time. Released by Meta

Unlocking Success: Equality of Opportunity vs. Equity - The Real Winner -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #26

Yesterday I posted a conversation between the former Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang, and Frederike Kaltheuner at thiss years re:publica in Berlin. Frederike Kaltheuner, raided the question were we need to invest to increase plurality and suggested that investing in open source AI, we would still need to

Bridging the Digital Divide: Harnessing Copyleft for Equitable AI Innovation -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #25

During the last few years, I have been calling for copyleft licensing for health data. Now, with my latest article, I delve into how copyleft licenses can dismantle information asymmetries, accelerate innovation, and make healthcare advancements accessible to all. By ensuring that data derivatives remain open and public, we can

Liberating AI: The End of Surveillance – 🦛 💌 Hippogram #24

Reflecting on the past two years of open-source AI advancements in large language models, it’s evident that open-source communities are leading innovation faster, more affordably, and inclusively than proprietary efforts from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. This progress has even extended to edge AI, where models operate independently

The Assetization of Medical Data and Medical AI: A System Designed for Inequality and Exorbitant Prices

Introduction The transformation of pharmaceuticals into financial assets has introduced the logics of scarcity and high prices from low-to-middle income countries to high-income countries. This shift has spurred new forms of activism, raising the question: will similar patterns emerge with the assetization of medical data and medical AI? This article

Investor Panic Fuels Closed-Source Narrative, but Open-Source AI Foundation Models Will Define the Future

I received the link to the blog post “The future of foundation models is closed-source” from at least 15 people within my network, highlighting the widespread dissemination of the author's biased blog post. The spread of his blog post, aligns with the bullshit asymmetry principle (Brandolini's

AI Act, Dislightenment power to BigTech -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #22

You are about to read our newsletter for health and tech professionals - the Hippogram. I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years. In that time, I've witnessed the evolution of technologies that are changing

Message from Clement Delangue -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #21

You are about to read our newsletter for health and tech professionals - the Hippogram. I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years. In that time, I've witnessed the evolution of technologies that are changing

Regeneration, Sustainability -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #20

The 20th edition of the Hippogram focuses on the myths of open source

It's been 5 years since we got all the "attention" we wanted.

Check out this cool animation, tracing the journey from the day the paper "Attention is all you need" was released to the present day. It illustrates how Open Source Large Language Models have risen to prominence, surpassing the previously dominant closed-source AI landscape of Google and OpenAI.

Build, Community, AskPaper -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #19

Build, Community, AskPaper -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #19

I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and

It's a Wrap and the Start

It's a Wrap and the Start

I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and

Breaking the Wall of Health Inequality

Breaking the Wall of Health Inequality

Hippo AI Open Health Data and AI Summit Today marks the beginning of an expanded awareness campaign. As we are now constructing the healthcare systems in which our children will live, we believe it is of utmost importance that they serve everyone equitably and are based on European values such

Conversation, Summit & Anthropology -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #18

Conversation, Summit & Anthropology -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #18

I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and

Text-to-Protein-Function, -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #17

Text-to-Protein-Function, -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #17

The impact of the current changes taking place in the AI space is not well known, which is why this newsletter focuses on some recent breakthroughs in the realm of open-sourced AI, which are moving at an unseen speed.

Taking Unity & Solidarity to the Next Level, -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #16

Taking Unity & Solidarity to the Next Level, -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #16

Bart's State of AI lecture at the annual Economist Thessaloniki Metropolitan Summit.

Disrupting Giants Regulation Gone Wrong -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #15

Disrupting Giants Regulation Gone Wrong -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #15

Bart describes the recent developments on Open Source Collaborations and how it is disrupting giants. Looking at EU regulators, it seems these Open Source development are not well understood -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #15

OS, AI, Mythbusters -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #14

OS, AI, Mythbusters -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #14

Sea, Shift and Open -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #13

Sea, Shift and Open -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #13

I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and