Protege is launching independent evaluations of healthcare AI, putting models through tests on patient cases they have not seen before. Its first benchmark, Disease Odyssey, offers an early indication of why that matters: according to the company, leading models identified conditions such as sleep apnea and anemia in only 53%–69% of cases when working from patient histories. The October 21 launch also includes evaluations with Xlue AI and Standard Model Biomedicine. Together, the results…