Google's MedGemma AI Models Could Transform Healthcare
The new Google open-source healthcare AI models are called MedGemma 27B Multimodal and MedSigLIP. Hospitals, researchers, and developers can download them, modify them, and run them however they see fit. The MedGemma 27B can look at medical images and understand them. When it was tested on MedQA, a standard medical knowledge benchmark, it scored 87.7%, making it close to larger, more expensive models while costing much less to run. Google also released MedSigLIP, which can understand medical images and spot patterns and features in ways that general-purpose models cannot.