Tether Launches QVAC MedPsy, Medical AI Runs Fully On-Device
Tether Launches QVAC MedPsy, Medical AI Runs Fully On-Device Tether’s AI Research Group introduced QVAC MedPsy, a medical language model built to run locally on phones, wearables, and low-power devices, without needing the cloud. Tether says this approach keeps sensitive healthcare data (records, notes, queries) private on-device, avoiding uploads to remote servers where compliance and privacy become harder. On performance, Tether claims the 1.7B model beats Google’s MedGemma-4B on a set of medical benchmarks, and even tops MedGemma-27B in some “real-world” clinical-style tests. The model…
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