Fitbit Collaborates with Google Gemini to Develop Personalized AI Fitness Coach
Fitbit is partnering with Google's research division to create a new large language model (LLM) based on Gemini. The Personal Health LLM is designed to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized health recommendations and actionable guidance based on their own data. The AI feature, currently being tested in the Fitbit Labs experimental section, aims to offer customized advice on workouts, fitness schedules, and more, tailored to users' individual health and fitness goals. Google emphasizes the importance of AI in the future of personal health and medicine, with the belief that doctors utilizing AI will replace those who do not.
Google acquired Fitbit in 2021 and integrated it into its hardware division, assuring users that their health data will not be used for targeted ads. The Gemini model used for health research is a fine-tuned, medical-focused version specifically tailored for healthcare applications. Google's exploration of AI in the healthcare sector includes testing the model's performance on sleep medicine certification exam-like practice tests, where it has demonstrated strong results.