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Google has unveiled a public preview of its AI-powered personal health coach built with Gemini to help Fitbit Premium users with a qualifying Pixel Watch or Fitbit device receive personalized fitness coaching, improve their sleep, and access a resource for health and wellness questions.
The tech giant said users can brainstorm with the AI coach to get more from doctor's visits, learn about nutrition, understand health conditions and their health data, summarize their health history and navigate life stages, such as menopause.
The fitness aspect of the coach will include helping users set goals and check progress. The AI can create multi-week workout plans, provide advice on proper exercises to achieve a goal and adjust advice through continuous learning based on feedback.
For sleep, users will be able to access a detailed analysis of their sleep, receive personalized recommendations for improving sleep quality, understand patterns and trends, uncover connections between lifestyle and sleep, and compare their sleep with other users.
The tech giant says the preview coach experience starts with a 5-to-10-minute conversation with the health coach through text or a keyboard microphone in order for the AI to understand a user's motivations and goals; however, users can skip this process.
The personal health coach is available for public preview in the U.S. to Android Fitbit Premium users and will be made available to iOS users in the future.
THE LARGER TREND
The company announced its intentions to release the personal health coach during its Made by Google event in New York in August. The event, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, included the release of the tech giant's Pixel Watch 4, among numerous other products.
Other companies offering a personalized health companion in conjunction with their wearable include Oura, which offers Oura Advisor available to Oura Ring Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 members.
Oura Advisor uses AI to analyze health data collected from the ring to allow users to understand long-term health trends and obtain data on sleep trends, readiness and resilience.
WHOOP offers its own AI-powered in-app coach dubbed WHOOP Coach that provides feedback pertaining to training, sleep and overall health, and Samsung offers its personalized Running Coach feature available on the Galaxy Watch8 that uses AI to evaluate running ability and create a training plan.
