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Microsoft And Mayo Clinic Are Building A Medical AI Model
Dr. Microsoft // Illustration by Kate Walker
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are teaming up to answer your most pressing health questions by building a new AI model trained on medical data, including patient records, research, and hospital clinicians’ expertise.
Why It Hits: If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been sick at some point and Googled your symptoms instead of seeing a doctor. Now, more people than ever are turning to AI with those same questions instead of Google, and the advice isn’t always accurate. In some cases, it’s even been dangerous.
Between The Symptoms: Microsoft and Mayo Clinic want to train AI specifically on healthcare data, so it can better support both patients and providers.
Most large language models are trained on a broad range of information, but by focusing exclusively on medical data, Mayo Clinic hopes to create an AI system that will be an expert in medicine.
The plan includes an AI assistant that patients can interact with through a hospital’s online portal.
But there’s a catch: according to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, the program could take “many years” to train.
Ultimately, Mayo Clinic hopes to license the tech to healthcare institutions.
Final Diagnosis: Microsoft and Mayo Clinic aren’t the only players trying to break into the AI healthcare space. Google has its own “AI Health Coach,” and both Anthropic and OpenAI offer AI health assistants. But Mayo Clinic brings decades of research on complex conditions to the table, and it’s already built smaller AI models to help detect heart disease and diagnose pancreatic cancer. That’s the kind of head start other tech giants can’t easily buy.
Next Patient: In a perfect world, we’d be using AI to cure diseases rather than write poorly crafted novels or eventually take over your job. In today’s world, though, it’s hard to believe any major corporation — let alone Microsoft — has our best interests at heart. But paired with Mayo Clinic’s expertise, this tech could finally be pointed toward something that truly matters, like helping beat cancer.
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Today’s email was written by Deena ElGenaidi and Kait Cunniff.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.