Google and Fitbit collaborate on AI model for customized health advice

The Personal Health Large Language Model is an artificial intelligence model that Google and Fitbit are developing together. Google is fine-tuning its Gemini model for the medical domain, building a personal health large language model that can power personalized health and wellness features in the Fitbit mobile app, developing AI models to help with early disease detection and researching ways that generative AI can assist with medical reasoning and clinical conversations.

The company at its annual health event in New York City said that the teams at Google Research and Fitbit were working on a new AI feature that will draw data from the wristbands to coach users on their personal health. Powered by Google's most advanced AI model, Gemini, the tool could, for example, assess how workouts affect the quality of a person's sleep.

Google also said that to deliver AI-powered screenings for tuberculosis, lung cancer and breast cancer in India, it will work with Apollo Radiology International.      

This effort will help provide three million free scans over the next 10 years. Google mentioned that it is also improving health information in Google search and YouTube, its video site.

The latest initiatives are part of Google's pledge to ensure that high quality health information is being delivered across all its products used by consumers and companies, Karen DeSalvo, Google's Chief Health Officer, said in an interview.