Dear Readers,
The future of medicine doesn't start with a prick, but with a bang: Microsoft presents the AI Diagnostic Orchestrator(MAI-DxO), a system that shows for the first time how machines can diagnose better than doctors.
What makes MAI-DxO so special is that it is not a single AI, but a consortium of several specialized agents that question and criticize each other and work out a diagnosis together - like an interdisciplinary team of doctors, only digital. These “machine conferences” act model-agnostically, i.e. independently of the underlying language model.
In Today’s Issue:
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All the best,


Microsoft: The path to medical superintelligence
The TLDR
Microsoft has unveiled its AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), a system designed to achieve "medical superintelligence." Instead of relying on a single AI, it uses a "consortium of machines"—multiple AI agents that collaborate like a team of human experts to debate hypotheses and reach a diagnosis. In a study of 304 complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, this multi-agent approach reportedly performed significantly better than individual human doctors, marking a major leap towards decision-capable AI in healthcare.
The AI revolution in healthcare starts with a powerful blow: Microsoft unveils a new era of “medical superintelligence”!

In its latest article, Microsoft describes how the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) performed significantly better than human doctors in tests with 304 complicated cases from the New England Journal of Medicine.
The trick: Microsoft does not rely on a single AI, but on the interaction of several AI agents that question each other like a team of medical experts, exchange hypotheses and arrive at a diagnosis together. These “consortia of machines ” combine clinical knowledge with diagnostic logic - model-agnostic, i.e. independent of the language model used.
This is a real quantum leap for the AI community: instead of just generating texts, these systems argue, weigh up and prioritize like human experts. This opens up a new chapter - that of decision-capable AI in the healthcare sector that not only helps, but also acts.
What does this mean for hospitals, research - and for all of us as patients? And how do we ensure that these systems work safely and fairly?

Why it matters: These AI diagnostics show for the first time that machines can make expert-level medical decisions - quickly, scalably and across models.
It is a foretaste of a healthcare system in which precision, efficiency and accessibility are redefined by AI.
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Here's how they did it 🧵👇
— #Dr. Dominic Ng (#@DrDominicNg)
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