Eleven Benchmark Wins, No Deployment Verdict
TL;DR for operators A smaller language model can outperform a larger one across many clinical NLP benchmarks without being the better choice for every clinical workflow. Ouro-1.4B-Thinking scored higher than Qwen3-1.7B on 11 of 13 evaluated datasets, while Ouro-2.6B-Thinking achieved competitive results against Qwen3-8B with substantially fewer parameters. The clearest advantages appeared in clinical inference and medical question answering. Extraction results were often closer, and every model struggled with an unfamiliar clinical extraction benchmark. ...