New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Google has launched two new artificial intelligence models focused on healthcare, MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, as part of its expanding efforts in medical AI. Unlike some rivals that offer healthcare AI tools primarily as paid enterprise services, Google has opted for a more open approach by releasing both models publicly for the wider research and developer community.

MedGemma 1.5 is the latest version of Google's medical vision-language model, built to analyse medical images alongside written information. The model can interpret scans, respond to questions related to visual medical data, and assist with a range of research-oriented tasks.

According to Google Research, the updated version brings improved multimodal re...