{
  "id": 1613,
  "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals",
  "title": "Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World",
  "summary": "One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup’s AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year. The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item’s molecular profile to an AI model equipped with a pharmaceutical database. In seconds, the AI identifies the medication from its molecular profile—or",
  "authors": "David Berreby",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "healthcare,biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "africa",
  "published_at": "2026-07-06T16:06:23.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:12.223Z",
  "source_slug": "ieee-spectrum",
  "source_name": "IEEE Spectrum",
  "source_homepage": "https://spectrum.ieee.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1613",
  "original_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}