Developed by HPAI, Aloe is a medical language model optimized based on Meta Llama 3 8B. Through model fusion and advanced prompting strategies, it achieves state-of-the-art performance comparable to its scale. Aloe scores high on ethical and factual metrics, thanks to the combination of red teaming and alignment work. The model provides medical-specific risk assessments to promote the safe and responsible use and deployment of these systems.