Med-PaLM Multimodal

MultiMedBench: A new benchmark spanning 14 tasks across clinical text, medical imaging (e.g., chest X-ray, pathology, dermatology), and genomics.

Single generalist model: A single 562B model handles medical Q&A, VQA, report generation, and genomic variant call - rather than disease-specific narrow models.

Clinician evaluations: In pilot evaluations by radiologists, Med-PaLM M's chest X-ray reports were preferred over reference reports in 40.50% of cases.

Generalist medical AI vision: Provided the strongest proof-of-concept for generalist biomedical AI, previewing the trajectory toward healthcare foundation models.