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Two new medical AIs match or exceed doctors on diagnosis — while keeping clinicians in charge

Published in Nature on June 18, 2026, two independent AI systems — MIRA, developed by Jakob Kather and colleagues, and Google’s AMIE — proved at least as capable as physicians across diagnosis and treatment reasoning, pointing toward tools that support rather than replace doctors.

June 19, 2026 · 6 min read

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