July 13, 2026 · The Decoder
Google's SensorFM turns wearable data into a health AI model
Google Research built SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over a trillion minutes of wearable sensor data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. It outperforms existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health and behavioral tasks, though Google hasn't announced product integration plans yet.
Why it matters: Shows foundation-model techniques extending from text and vision into large-scale personal health sensor data.