Microsoft's MAI-DxO draws attention with 83% diagnostic accuracy
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On 23 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that Microsoft's AI diagnostic system MAI-DxO achieved 83% accuracy in simulated diagnoses of complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine in a study published in Science, compared with 36% for general practitioners and internists working alone. The report noted that such complex cases are usually handled by specialists or teams, but the latter did not take part in the comparison. Progress so far remains at the stage of published research results.
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- TechCrunch · AIMicrosoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
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