From improving clinical trials to easing administrative workloads, AI is already changing what’s possible in healthcare. To help accelerate this progress, Google France recently brought together 130 experts for a 12-hour hackathon focused on building new medical prototypes using open AI models.

Twenty-six teams used Google’s open models — including Gemma, MedGemma and TxGemma — to develop functional prototypes addressing challenges that ranged from improving emergency-room triage to providing better support for oncology patients.

The ingenuity on display reflects a wider movement across Europe to apply AI to medicine and life sciences. To support this movement, Google.org announced a $5 million commitment to organizations using AI to advance European healthcare. This initiative will help local organizations and professionals build stronger digital health ecosystems.