Mayo Clinic and Microsoft are collaborating to develop and deploy a frontier AI model to be owned by Mayo Clinic. Microsoft said it plans to make the model available through Azure Foundry APIs, enabling organizations to access advanced AI capabilities designed to better support patients, clinicians and consumers.

As Nvidia defines them, frontier models are the most advanced AI models available at a given moment, trained on massive datasets to deliver state-of-the-art performance across many tasks, representing the leading edge of AI capability.

The organizations said the model is designed to synthesize diverse clinical data to support earlier diagnoses, more personalized treatment decisions and better patient outcomes. By expanding access to actionable insights and supporting care teams in complex decision-making, the collaboration aims to address some of healthcare’s most challenging problems.

The model is initially being deployed within Mayo Clinic’s clinical environment, where it can be continuously tested, refined and improved through real-world use.

“Mayo Clinic is committed to putting patients first, and we have long believed AI can help transform healthcare. Seven years ago, we launched Mayo Clinic Platform to move healthcare from a pipeline to a platform model through a safe, trusted, patient-centric de-identified data foundation designed to accelerate innovation, breakthroughs, and cures,” said Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic, in a statement. “Now, by combining our clinical expertise and data foundation with Microsoft’s engineering and AI capabilities, we are once again building something new in healthcare and bringing more of Mayo Clinic to more patients.”

In a statement, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, said, “Frontier medical intelligence is around the corner. This is the best collaboration imaginable to help us accelerate towards that future. Mayo has unparalleled clinical expertise, de-identified clinical health data and longitudinal medical insights, and we're thrilled to partner with their world class physicians to build a state-of-the-art foundation model for healthcare.”