Google deepens AI push into health care with Fitbit, screenings


Fitbit products at a Best Buy store in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Google said that teams at Google Research and Fitbit were developing a new AI feature that will draw data from the wristbands to coach users on their personal health. — Bloomberg

Alphabet Inc’s Google announced a slew of initiatives to deploy its artificial intelligence models in the health care industry, including a tool that will help Fitbit users glean insights from their wearable devices and a partnership to improve screenings for cancer and disease in India.

At its annual health event in New York City, the company said Tuesday that teams at Google Research and Fitbit, which it owns, were developing 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.

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