OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Huffington Post founder launch new company Thrive AI Health to provide ultra-personalized AI health coaching



Medicine is one of the earliest fields to use AI, with hospitals

using Google's DeepMind for cancer treatment appearing in 2016. On July 8, 2024, OpenAI Startup Fund, an OpenAI-related fund, and Thrive Global, a technology company founded by Arianna Huffington, founder of HuffPost (formerly Huffington Post), announced a partnership to establish 'Thrive AI Health,' which aims to provide expert-level health coaching AI.

OpenAI Startup Fund & Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global Create New Company, Thrive AI Health, To Launch Hyper-Personalized AI Health Coach
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AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care | TIME
https://time.com/6994739/ai-behavior-change-health-care/

'Sam Altman and I shared our vision for how AI-driven behavior change could transform healthcare, and published an article in TIME announcing the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company funded by OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global. The company's mission is to use AI to democratize access to expert-level health coaching to improve health and address growing health disparities,' Huffington said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).



OpenAI Startup Fund is an investment fund previously run by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Thrive Global is a company founded by Huffington in 2016 that provides technology related to 'behavioral change' to improve health habits and behaviors.

According to a TIME article co-written by Altman and Huffington, at the time of writing, 129 million Americans have at least one chronic condition, and 90% of the $4.1 trillion in annual health care spending goes to treating them.

To address growing health issues, Thrive AI Health's core philosophy is to use the power of 'hyper-personalized AI' to help improve lifestyle habits.



OpenAI is already working with healthcare company Color Health to develop an AI copilot to help with cancer screening and help doctors create treatment plans, but Thrive AI Health envisions its personalized AI acting as a direct health coach for users.

Specifically, the AI coach, trained in peer-reviewed scientific journals and a behavioral change technique that Thrive calls 'microsteps,' will study the user's personal data selected by the user and their tendencies across five lifestyle areas -- sleep, diet, exercise, stress management and social connections -- and provide improvement suggestions for these areas via the mobile app and Thrive Global's services.

As a use case, Altman and his colleagues said, 'Busy professionals with diabetes may have a hard time managing their blood sugar levels because their hectic schedules mean that diet and exercise tend to overlook their priorities. A personalized AI health coach, trained on medical data and daily habits, could provide reminders to take medication, suggest healthy meals that can be eaten quickly, and encourage people to take short breaks to exercise.'



The new company's CEO will be DeCarlos Love, who has experience working on Fitbit by Google Fitness at Google, etc. In addition, the founding partners who have signed a research agreement include Stanford University School of Medicine, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, and the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University.

'We're excited to collaborate with Thrive AI Health and the Stanford School of Medicine to engage our faculty and future physicians in exploring uses for an AI health coach that reflect our school's holistic approach to health,' said Sharmila Makhija, founding dean and CEO of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.

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