Tavus just launched PAL Maker, a no-code platform that lets anyone build interactive AI video companions simply by describing them to a creator agent named Charlie. Powered by models like Raven-1 and Phoenix-4, the avatars come equipped with faces, voices, vision, and long-term memory. Why it matters: It lowers the barrier of digital human creation to a casual chat, already serving roles from post-surgery check-ins to candidate screening.
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic just partnered to build a frontier AI model purpose-built for clinical reasoning and healthcare. Mayo will train the system on its de-identified patient data and retain ownership, while Microsoft provides the supercomputing power and plans to distribute it via Azure Foundry APIs.
Microsoft just rolled out seven in-house MAI models covering reasoning, coding, vision, and speech, all built from scratch on clean data without third-party distillation. The drop includes MAI-Thinking-1, a lightweight coding model for GitHub Copilot, and an enterprise tuning workflow called Frontier Tuning. Why it matters: Microsoft is aggressively engineering full-stack independence across its own silicon and software.
Mayo Clinic just unveiled an AI model that can spot pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. Published in Gut, the system catches subtle signs before tumors are visible, buying critical time for curative treatment against one of the deadliest cancers.
Mayo Clinic researchers just developed a vision transformer that detects surgical site infections directly from patient-submitted photos. Trained on over 20,000 images, the model identifies incisions with 94% accuracy and flags infection signs to relieve clinicians from manually reviewing portals. It gives home-recovering patients faster answers while prioritizing high-risk cases.
Mayo Clinic just teamed up with Microsoft Research and Cerebras Systems to build specialized foundation models for healthcare. The projects use chest X-rays to automate radiology reporting and patient exome data to tailor treatments for diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Why it matters: bringing multimodal AI directly to clinical scans and genomics could drastically cut diagnosis times.
Mayo Clinic just became one of the first healthcare systems to test Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling out early access to hundreds of clinical staff and doctors. The AI assistant connects with Outlook, Word, and meeting transcripts to automate administrative chores like form-filling, aiming to give healthcare workers valuable time back for actual patient care.
