Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
M42 Health
LLM

Llama3-Med42-70B

70B clinical LLM fine-tuned from Llama3-70B Instruct; MedQA 79.10, MedMCQA 73.20, USMLE 83.80 (developer-reported).

Pairwise comparison chart of Med42 70B against other models on open-ended healthcare questions.
Levelmodel
ClassLLM
Parameters70B
Contextnot in the notes
ReleasedAug 2024
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusnot in the notes

Benchmark Results

vendor-reported
MedMCQAdomain
vendor-reported
73.2
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

MedQAdomain
vendor-reported
79.1
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

USMLEdomain
vendor-reported
83.8
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

finetune
Llama3-70B Instruct to Llama3-Med42-70B: finetune, high confidenceLlama3-70B InstructLlama3-70B InstructMetaLlama3-Med42-70BLlama3-Med42-70BM42 Health, Aug 2024
MetaLlama3-70B Instruct is the parent (finetune)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

Industry Use Cases

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
M42 Health
Family
Med42 Llama3
Released
Aug 2024 sourcesnotes
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes
Total parameters
70B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
Meta Llama 3 Community License sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/m42-health/Llama3-Med42-70B https://huggingface.co/m42-health/Llama3-Med42-70B

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Llama3-Med42-70B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/m42-med42-llama3-70b/, records of October 2026.