Microsoft, Mayo Clinic plan to build frontier AI model for healthcare - Fierce Healthcare

Well, here's a match made in hell: Microsoft, the company that just laid off thousands in its 'AI pivot,' is now partnering with Mayo Clinic to build a 'frontier AI model' for healthcare. Because nothing says 'trust us' like a tech giant whose CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, once said 'we are building a state-of-the-art foundation model.' Meanwhile, the same company is busy using AI to replace radiologists and nurses. But sure, let's give this model access to Mayo's clinical data—what could possibly go wrong? A hallucinated diagnosis or four?

Naturally, the press release is full of the usual guff: 'transforming patient outcomes,' 'unlocking the potential of AI.' Yet we all know that 'frontier model' is corporate speak for 'we'll train it on your medical records and then sell it back to you at a premium.' Mayo Clinic gets to pretend it's cutting-edge; Microsoft gets another data trove to feed its AGI dreams. The real winners? The shareholders. The patients? Just a beta test.

And here's the kicker: the model will be 'foundational,' meaning it'll have no oversight because regulation is still stuck in committee. Cheers to progress. Another day, another step closer to Dr. Alexa misdiagnosing your arrhythmia.