OpenAI is considering entering the health field to create a personal health assistant.

The artificial intelligence company OpenAI is considering launching consumer health products, including personal health assistants or health data aggregation platforms, marking its expansion into vertical areas beyond its core business. This will be OpenAI's most ambitious commercial attempt to date, aiming to tackle the long-standing challenge of medical data integration that has troubled tech giants. In June of this year, OpenAI appointed Dr. Nate Gross, co-founder of the medical social platform Doximity, as the company's head of medical strategy, and in August, hired former Instagram executive Ashley Alexander as vice president of health products. At the HLTH conference in October, Gross revealed that ChatGPT attracts about 800 million active users per week, many of whom seek medical advice. OpenAI's entry into the health data field means a return to the medical "battlefield" where tech giants have repeatedly failed. Microsoft's HealthVault and Google Health both failed due to low user stickiness and data fragmentation; Amazon also closed its Halo health hardware business in 2023. However, competition is quickly heating up. Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet, launched "Verily Me" in October 2025, providing AI companion "Violet" and personalized health advice generated by a team of doctors, which aligns closely with OpenAI's potential direction. Unlike Google's self-built ecosystem, OpenAI leans more towards a cooperative approach. The company has partnered with Lilly and Sanofi in drug development. Gross said at the conference, "The way we achieve the greatest value is through a strong partner ecosystem." OpenAI's GPT-5, released in August 2025, has enhanced medical capabilities, with the company's CEO calling it "the most suitable model for medical applications to date," and GPT-5 also scored the highest in HealthBench tests. Although the company has not publicly confirmed its health product plans, it is widely believed in the industry that OpenAI is paving the way for its official entry into the medical technology field.