OpenAI is weighing constructing client well being merchandise, together with a generative AI-powered private well being assistant, because the ChatGPT maker goals to maneuver past its core choices, Enterprise Insider reported on Monday, citing sources near the corporate.
The corporate declined to touch upon the report.
OpenAI’s healthcare push follows strategic hires, together with Nate Gross, cofounder of doctor community Doximity, as head of healthcare technique in June, and former Instagram govt Ashley Alexander as vice chairman of well being merchandise in August.
On the HLTH convention in October, Gross mentioned ChatGPT attracts about 800 million weekly lively customers, many looking for medical recommendation.
Tech giants corresponding to Google, Amazon and Microsoft have lengthy tried to offer customers management over their medical information, typically with restricted success.
Google shut its well being file service in 2011 as a consequence of low traction, whereas Amazon wound down its Halo health tracker enterprise in 2023. Microsoft’s HealthVault platform additionally failed to draw widespread adoption.