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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Publisher description: 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.
TechCrunch | Oct 22, 2026 | Rebecca Bellan
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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI’s CEO, called the result a step toward “medical superintelligence. ” The system, dubbed MAI-DxO (DxO for short), coordinates several AI agents that act like a panel of doctors. Accuracy improvements delivered by DxO (no budget constraints) on CPC over modelsprompted with baseline prompt across different large language models. Image Credits:Microsoft AI Microsoft measured DxO on cost as well as accuracy, meaning the estimated cost of running the AI on each case. DxO helps most on complex cases and with less capable AI models.
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