Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington Launch AI Health Coach with OpenAI and Thrive Global

Jul 8, 2024, 01:02 PM

OpenAI and Thrive Global have launched a new company, Thrive AI Health, aimed at transforming healthcare through AI-driven personalized behavior change. The initiative, announced by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Thrive Global CEO Arianna Huffington, will focus on offering a hyper-personalized AI health coach. The company is funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global, and the CEO is Google’s former health and wearables lead. This development is part of a broader trend of integrating artificial intelligence into medicine, with AI being used to assist doctors in diagnosing patients and enhancing medical imaging. The goal is to leverage AI to provide deep medical expertise and improve healthcare outcomes.