Fitbit Labs now available to test new health insights powered by AI
AI powered Fitbit Labs, teased earlier this year, is now open for select users to test experimental features. A collaborative venture with Google Gemini, it aims to deepen users’ understanding of their health data. For example, this AI-powered tool can explain how specific daily activities affect sleep, providing visual aids like charts to show the correlation.
Users can opt into Fitbit Labs through the Fitbit app’s “You” tab. When and if they are approved, they will gain early access to these experimental features.
The insights explorer, which is the first tool available through Fitbit Labs, personalizes responses based on individual user data. It draws on health metrics such as activity levels and sleep, offering AI-generated feedback that allows users to better understand the interplay between their lifestyle habits and health outcomes.
Fitbit’s goal with Labs, at the moment, is to test a variety of AI-driven features and collect user feedback. No info yet on a potential public release date – probably in the next few months is our guess.
Our takeaway
Since the Google acquisition there have been almost no new hardware releases from Fitbit. Talk is that we’ve seen the last of their smartwatches, with Google picking up the mantle. So it makes sense for the company to focus on the software side of things. This shift toward AI-powered data interpretation may mark a new chapter.
The introduction of Fitbit Labs aligns with broader trends in digital health, where AI is becoming increasingly important in personalizing health recommendations. Whoop and Zepp Health are just two of the names which have integrated chatbot-like features into their smartphone apps.
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The insights explorer is only the first of many potential experimental labs Fitbit plans to release. These labs will let users ask more specific questions about their health and receive data-backed answers.
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