Microsoft and Mayo Clinic Unveil Frontier AI Model on Azure Foundry
MSFT•Microsoft is collaborating with Mayo Clinic to develop a frontier AI healthcare model using de-identified clinical data and Azure AI to support earlier diagnoses and personalized treatments, with ownership retained by Mayo. Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models including MAI-Thinking-1 to diversify its AI portfolio and reduce dependence on OpenAI.
1. Mayo Clinic and Microsoft Partnership
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic formed a strategic collaboration to co-develop a frontier AI model tailored for healthcare, combining Mayo’s de-identified clinical data and longitudinal insights with Microsoft’s AI, cloud and engineering capabilities to enhance diagnostic and treatment decision-making.
2. Frontier AI Model Capabilities
The model is designed to synthesize diverse clinical data sets, support earlier diagnoses, personalize treatment decisions and improve patient outcomes across a broad range of clinical reasoning and healthcare use cases.
3. Deployment, Ownership and Access
Mayo Clinic will retain ownership of the model, ensuring governance, data stewardship and clinical rigor, while Microsoft will distribute it globally via Azure Foundry APIs to enable healthcare organizations to integrate the AI into clinical workflows.
4. In-House AI Models to Diversify Offerings
At its annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced seven in-house AI models—highlighted by the MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model and MAI-Image-2.5—aimed at expanding its AI portfolio and reducing dependency on external AI providers.
