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Google Research presents SensorFM for wearable health data

Researchers say the foundation model was pre-trained on more than one trillion minutes of de-identified wearable data from five million consented participants.

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A wrist-worn fitness tracker displays a live heart-rate reading.
A Fitbit Alta HR displaying a heart-rate measurement, photographed by PamD, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. The photograph directly illustrates the wearable physiological signals modeled by SensorFM; it does not depict a Google research participant. View image source ↗

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July 18, 2026

What the source claims

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  • Google researchers report that SensorFM was pre-trained on more than one trillion minutes of de-identified wearable data from five million consented participants.
  • The researchers say the model transfers across 35 wearable-data prediction tasks.

What remains unknown

  • Clinical usefulness, subgroup performance, privacy protections, and performance outside the reported research setting.
  • Whether independent teams can reproduce the reported transfer results.
Topics in this brief
  • Research
  • Wearables
  • Health AI

What to watch

  • Peer-reviewed details, subgroup analyses, independent replication, and prospective clinical evaluation.

Sources and evidence

primary source

Google Research — SensorFM ↗

Accessed 2026-07-18. Claims above remain attributed to this source rather than presented as independent verification.

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