OpenAI is going all in on healthcare AI.
The company added two new leaders to its burgeoning healthcare AI team, Business Insider found, and is hiring for more researchers and engineers.
Nate Gross, co-founder and former chief strategy officer of healthcare business networking tool Doximity, joined OpenAI in June, and according to Business Insider will lead the company’s go-to-market strategy in healthcare. One of the early goals of the team will reportedly be to co-create new healthcare tech with clinicians and researchers.
OpenAI also hired Ashley Alexander, former co-head of product at Instagram, BI reported, who joined the company on Tuesday as vice president of product in the health business. Alexander’s team’s aim, a spokesperson told BI, was to build tech for individual consumers and clinicians.
The new hires come as OpenAI increases its bet on the healthcare industry.
“Improving human health will be one of the defining impacts of AGI [artificial general intelligence],” the company said in a press release from May announcing HealthBench, the company’s new benchmark to evaluate AI systems capabilities for health.
Meanwhile, AI models specialized to help healthcare professionals are burrowing themselves further into the healthcare industry, and people are increasingly resorting to ChatGPT to make sense of their symptoms.
But, like pretty much everything else with AI, the technology’s increased adoption in healthcare does not come without concerns.
OpenAI’s bet
OpenAI is far from the first company making a bet on healthcare AI; it even lags behind Palantir, Google, and Microsoft, which have been making strides in this area for several years now. And the company’s push into healthcare AI isn’t necessarily new, but it has noticeably accelerated in the past few months.
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