Fitbit Starts Testing New Gemini-Powered ‘Insights Explorer’- Here’s How to Sign Up

Fitbit labs have recently been working on introducing Fitbit devotees to groundbreaking features like ‘Insight Explorer’, which leverages Gemini models. The feature allows you to ask questions and discover insights. This experimental beginning of integrating Gemini AI into the Fitbit smartphone app will help users analyze health. It uses fitness-related user data for better personalized health insights.

Google long teased Fitbit’s much-anticipated AI chatbot at the Google Pixel 8 event in October of last year. Surely a long wait time for the AI fitness tool. However, the wait has come to an end, as on Monday Google commenced the public testing. 

For the moment, the Fitbit lab is open to a limited number of people. To be eligible for the lab, you need to have the following requirements:-

• Must have an active Fitbit premium subscription.

• Fitbit app installed on an Android smartphone.

• Residing in the US and with the app set to the English language.

• Must be above or at least 18 years old

If you meet these criteria and are logged in to Fitbit via your Google account, then you may see an invitation to Insight Explorer lab on the Fitbit app’s You tab.

The testing feature ‘Insights Explorer’ lets users “ask questions about their Fitbit data and receive personalized insights, including trends, summaries, explanations, and illustrative charts.” This includes averages, trends, summaries, explanations, comparisons, and illustrative charts.  It also provides general explanations and definitions of health and wellness terms. Example: “What is resting heart rate?”

To provide accuracy it makes use of the following data: Active Zone Minutes (AZM), sleep score, sleep duration, bed/awake time, deep/light/REM sleep, heart rate variability (HRV), and resting heart rate (RHR).
Fitbit notes how “you may notice a delay of up to 48 hours before your most recent data is available to analyze.” The company also warns about AI generating inaccurate or misleading information.