Investment Follows Technical Collaboration on Large Language Models for Healthcare

投资遵循医疗保健大型语言模型的技术合作

Hippocratic AI, the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced it has received an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm in its recently closed extended Series A round. NVentures, along with Greycroft and Leo Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures, contributed a combined total of an additional $17 million to the round, bringing the total invested in the company to $137 million.

希波克拉底人工智能（Hippocratic AI）是第一家为医疗保健建立以安全为中心的大型语言模型（LLM）的公司，今天宣布，在其最近结束的A轮延长系列中，该公司已获得NVIDIA风险投资子公司NVentures的投资。NVentures与7Wire Ventures的格雷克罗夫特（Greycroft）和利奥·夏皮罗（LeoShapiro）共同为这轮投资贡献了1700万美元，使该公司的总投资达到1.37亿美元。

The first close of the Series A round was co-led by Premji Invest and General Catalyst with participation from SV Angel and Memorial Hermann Health System as well as existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, and Universal Health Services (UHS) at a $500 million valuation..

首轮A轮结束由Premji Invest和General Catalyst共同领导，SV Angel和Memorial Hermann Health System以及现有投资者Andreessen Horowitz（a16z）Bio+Health、辛辛那提儿童、WellSpan Health和Universal Health Services（UHS）以5亿美元的估值参与。。

Hippocratic AI’s collaboration with NVIDIA is centered on cutting-edge technological advancements. Hippocratic AI is leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices to scale its production platform to deliver low-latency and long-context conversational capabilities. The collaboration, launched at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference earlier this year, includes several techniques tailored for real-time, long-context conversational AI, including prefix caching, speculative decoding, and prefill/decode disaggregation.

希波克拉底人工智能与NVIDIA的合作以尖端技术进步为中心。希波克拉底人工智能正在利用NVIDIA NIM微服务来扩展其生产平台，以提供低延迟和长上下文对话功能。这项合作于今年早些时候在NVIDIA GTC全球人工智能会议上启动，包括为实时长上下文对话人工智能量身定制的几种技术，包括前缀缓存、推测解码和预填充/解码分解。

In addition, Hippocratic AI, powered by NVIDIA technologies, is advancing medical domain specialization in LLMs through custom automated speech recognition (ASR) technology, fine-tuned to meet the needs of clinician-patient interactions..

此外，由NVIDIA technologies提供支持的希波克拉底人工智能（Hippocratic AI）正在通过定制的自动语音识别（ASR）技术推进LLM的医学领域专业化，并进行了微调，以满足临床医生与患者互动的需要。。

“NVIDIA is an ideal collaborator to help us achieve our vision of delivering healthcare abundance,” said Munjal Shah, Co-Founder and CEO at Hippocratic AI. “Our deep technical collaboration has helped us to build an LLM with extremely low latency leading to more empathetic inference capabilities. Their venture capital arm’s investment in our company demonstrates our shared interest in harnessing the power of generative AI to revolutionize healthcare.”.

希波克拉底人工智能（Hippocratic AI）联合创始人兼首席执行官穆尼尔·沙阿（Munjal Shah）表示：“NVIDIA是帮助我们实现丰富医疗保健愿景的理想合作者。我们的深度技术合作帮助我们建立了一个潜伏期极低的LLM，从而产生了更多的同理心推理能力。他们的风险投资部门对我们公司的投资表明了我们在利用生成性人工智能的力量彻底改变医疗保健方面的共同利益。”。

“Generative AI will expand the healthcare industry and its ability to serve the growing demands of patient care, and Hippocratic AI is putting the technology to work to increase access to healthcare,” said Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare at NVIDIA. “The company’s safety-focused approach uses advanced NVIDIA technologies to make personalized, real-time patient interactions more natural and capable, helping build trust among patients and clinicians alike.”.

NVIDIA医疗保健副总裁金伯利·鲍威尔（KimberlyPowell）表示：“生成性人工智能将扩大医疗保健行业及其满足日益增长的患者护理需求的能力，希波克拉底人工智能（HippocratiAI）正在将这项技术投入工作，以增加获得医疗保健的机会。”。“该公司以安全为中心的方法使用先进的NVIDIA技术，使个性化、实时的患者互动更自然、更有能力，有助于在患者和临床医生之间建立信任。”。

About Hippocratic AI

关于希波克拉底AI

Hippocratic AI’s mission is to develop the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health.

希波克拉底人工智能（Hippocratic AI）的使命是为医疗保健开发第一个以安全为中心的大型语言模型（LLM）。该公司相信，安全的LLM可以通过为每个人带来深入的医疗保健专业知识，极大地改善世界各地的医疗保健可及性和健康结果。没有其他技术有可能对健康产生如此程度的全球影响。

The company was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, and NVIDIA. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $137 million in funding and is backed by leading investors, including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Premji Invest, SV Angel, NVentures, and Greycroft.

该公司由首席执行官Munjal Shah与El Camino Health、约翰·霍普金斯大学、圣路易斯华盛顿大学、斯坦福大学、谷歌和NVIDIA的一群医生、医院管理人员、医疗保健专业人员和人工智能研究人员共同创立。希波克拉底人工智能（Hippocratic AI）共获得1.37亿美元的资金，并得到了主要投资者的支持，包括General Catalyst、Andreessen Horowitz、Premji Invest、SV Angel、NVentures和Greycroft。

For more information on Hippocratic AI, visit hippocraticai.com..

有关希波克拉底AI的更多信息，请访问希波克拉底网站。。

Originally announced September 19th, 2024

最初于2024年9月19日宣布

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