Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare – Mayo Clinic News Network

Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare – Mayo Clinic News Network

By Andrea Kalmanovitz
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 18:31:00

  • Medical Innovation

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, and Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and CEO, Mayo Clinic

Collaboration aims to expand access to Mayo Clinic’s trusted healthcare expertise and improve patient and clinician experiences

ROCHESTER, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — Mayo Clinic and Microsoft today announced a strategic collaboration to develop and deploy a frontier AI model designed specifically for healthcare, making Mayo Clinic’s knowledge, expertise and integrated model of care available to more people when and where they need it. 

The collaboration combines Mayo Clinic’s global healthcare expertise, de-identified clinical health data and longitudinal insights with Microsoft’s advanced AI, cloud, engineering and superintelligence capabilities. Together, the organizations are developing a frontier AI model capable of supporting the broadest scope of clinical reasoning and healthcare…