OpenAI has acquired the health-care exertion startup Torch, the institution announced connected Monday.
Torch was gathering a "unified aesculapian memory" for artificial intelligence that aimed to bring a patient's wellness data, which is typically siloed and stored crossed a fig of antithetic vendors and formats, into 1 place.
Torch's employees volition articulation OpenAI arsenic portion of the deal, the companies said. OpenAI and Torch did not disclose the presumption of the acquisition.
"I can't ideate a amended adjacent section than to present get to enactment our exertion and ideas successful the hands of the hundreds of millions of radical who already usage ChatGPT for wellness questions each week," Torch CEO Ilya Abyzov wrote successful a station connected X.
Abyzov antecedently co-founded different health-care startup called Forward, which was a direct-to-consumer superior attraction concern that carried retired diligent visits via tech-enabled "CarePods." Forward abruptly shuttered operations successful 2024.
OpenAI's acquisition of Torch comes conscionable days aft it unveiled ChatGPT Health, a caller acquisition that allows users link their aesculapian records and wellness apps to the AI chatbot.
The institution besides announced respective enterprise-grade products for health-care organizations. Some of its archetypal partners see ample wellness systems similar HCA Healthcare.
In December, OpenAI hired Google's Albert Lee to pb firm development, a awesome that the institution volition proceed to hunt for M&A targets that tin assistance it summation an borderline implicit rivals like Google and Anthropic.
The institution made respective acquisitions successful 2025, including Jony Ive's AI devices startup io for much than $6 billion in May.
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