Summary
- OpenAI considers launching a consumer health app, hiring Nate Gross and Ashley Alexander to lead health strategy and products.
- The company has around 800 million weekly users, many using AI for medical questions, but it still has low revenue and seeks to diversify revenue.
- Google and Microsoft failed health initiatives, shutting down their medical records services
OpenAI is studying entering the health tools market for end consumers. Possibilities include a personal medical assistant or a data aggregator. The information is from Business Insiderwho spoke to sources close to the company on condition of anonymity.
Recent hires indicate the company’s interest in this sector. OpenAI brought on Nate Gross, co-founder of healthtech Doximity, and Ashley Alexander, formerly of Instagram. Gross will lead healthcare strategy, and Alexander will serve as vice president of healthcare products.
At the HLTH conference, held in October 2025, Gross said that OpenAI has a very broad reach, with about 800 million active users per week — many of whom use artificial intelligence to answer medical questions.
Wanted by Business Insiderthe company declined to comment on the matter.
OpenAI still has low revenue
As the publication notes, OpenAI has plans to launch products and services to compete with companies in traditional markets, such as sales and law. The search for new areas of activity may have financial reasons: the startup seems interested in diversifying its sources of revenue.
One of these sources is e-commerce. In the United States, it already offers the option of making purchases within ChatGPT, charging stores a commission for the intermediation service.
As a note to BloombergOpenAI has already committed to spending $1.4 trillion on data centers. The AI company currently has annualized recurring revenue of about $20 billion.
Google, Microsoft and Amazon failed in the healthcare sector
The news agency Reuters notes that initiatives by technology giants in the health sector have not been very successful.
Google offered a medical records service, but closed it in 2011. Microsoft’s HealthVault had a similar proposal, but was closed in 2019, without attracting much interest from users. Finally, Amazon closed the Halo fitness tracker division in 2023.
With information from Business Insider and Reuters
Source: https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/openai-considera-lancar-aplicativo-de-saude-para-uso-pessoal/
