The paper BiMediX: Bilingual Medical Mixture of Experts LLM introduces the first bilingual medical mixture of experts LLM, BiMediX, for English and Arabic languages. This model facilitates an extensive range of medical interactions and boasts an impressive dataset called BiMed1.3M, which covers diverse medical interactions totaling over 632 million healthcare specialized tokens.

• A bilingual model capable of multi-turn chats, multiple-choice Q&A, and open-ended Q&A.
• Semi-automated English-to-Arabic translation pipeline ensuring high-quality translations.
• Significant improvements in performance over existing models like Med42 and Meditron.
• Operates at 8-times faster inference speeds.

BiMediX represents an important advancement in medical AI, particularly for the Arabic-speaking world. Its ability to efficiently navigate bilingual medical discourse and substantially outperform current models is groundbreaking. It paves the way for more personalized and accessible healthcare services and aids in developing better medical language understanding which can be extended to other language pairs.