Clinic-grade AI: Mayo Clinic and Microsoft team to train health-focused model

Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are partnering to build an AI model trained on medical data—patient records, research, and clinicians’ expertise—to assist patients and clinicians, with Mayo Clinic owning the model and testing it first before broader rollout, and plans to power hospital tools and possibly Copilot; experts say it will take years to reach the accuracy needed for high-stakes health questions amid a competitive health-AI landscape.