A major shift in open-source medical AI just happened

Google has publicly released its MedGemma and MedSigLIP models — and they’re not just another LLM drop.

These models can see:

 🩻 Analyse chest X-rays

 🧬 Interpret complex medical images

 📝 Understand patient histories

Think of them as a digital second opinion for healthcare professionals.

⚙️ MedGemma 27B can process both medical text and images, scoring an impressive 87.7% on MedQA, a gold-standard benchmark in clinical reasoning.

 Even the smaller version achieved 81% accuracy, validated by US radiologists — good enough to assist in real-world patient care.

But here’s what really stands out: 

🔓 They’re free.

💥 No API tokens. No subscriptions.

 🤛 Google has released these models for local use — downloadable, modifiable, and open to the global community.

This could be a turning point for hospitals, med-tech startups, and researchers in underserved regions.

 With the right infrastructure, this isn’t just a model release — it’s a decentralisation of medical intelligence.

If you’re working on healthcare AI, now’s the time to pay attention.

📣 We’d love to partner with local providers or clinics interested in running an MVP using these open-source tools. If that’s you — let’s talk.