alt Hacker News> Their value prop is curation of trusted medical sources
Interesting. Why wouldn't an LLM based search provide the same thing? Just ask it to "use only trusted sources".
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I don't think you can use an LLM for that. For the same reason you can't just ask it to "Make the app secure and fast"
Yes, they can. We have gotten better at grounding LLMs to specific sources and providing accurate citations. Those go some distance in establishing trust.
There is trust and then there is accountability.
At the end of the day, a business/practice needs to hold someone/entity accountable. Until the day we can hold an LLM accountable we need businesses like OpenEvidence and Harvey. Not to say Anthropic/OpenAI/Google cannot do this but there is more to this business than grounding LLMs and finding relevant answers.
> Why wouldn't an LLM based search provide the same thing? Just ask it to "use only trusted sources".
Is that sarcasm?
They're building a moat with data. They're building their own datasets of trusted sources, using their own teams of physicians and researchers. They've got hundreds of thousands of physicians asking millions of questions everyday. None of the labs have this sort of data coming in or this sort of focus on such a valuable niche