Pleias wins Nvidia codefest with 2B medical models offering 10x shorter reasoning
JFPuget · x · 2026-10-23
France's Pleias won NVIDIA's OpenModels Codefest hackathon and will present at the GTC Berlin Public Sector Forum on October 20 alongside four other winning teams (zehnlab.ai, ABA Technology, Disseqt AI, Algoritmica).
- Trained three 2B open medical reasoning models via the SYNTH pipeline on NVIDIA NeMo, built from raw documents
- First European Engram-enabled models, leveraging DeepSeek's Engram for specialized medical terminology
- Fluent in Belgium's three languages plus English; sets a new Pareto frontier on several multilingual medical benchmarks, beating larger models
- Reasoning traces 10x shorter than similar-sized models
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