These two just can’t NOT make money with this idea…
Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington and OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced their support for a new AI health firm named Thrive AI Health in an op-ed published by Time on Monday in an effort to change the wellness and health market.
Today Sam Altman and I published a piece in TIME sharing our vision for how AI-driven personalized behavior change can transform healthcare and announcing the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global, which will be devoted to… pic.twitter.com/Pephsbxepb
— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) July 8, 2024
Although many are using artificial intelligence to further healthcare, wellness, and longevity research—including early detection of brain tumors, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease—the emergence of this technology is sometimes compared to an arms race.
“AI has become central to [our] mission to improve health and productivity outcomes,” Huffington tweeted. “I’m incredibly passionate about the opportunity to leverage AI to provide hyper-personalized behavior change.”
Originally co-founding The Huffington Post in 2005 and starting Thrive Global in 2016, Huffington developed Thrive Global as a behavior change technology firm providing science-based tools and technologies, including artificial intelligence, to improve output and well-being. Now launching Thrive AI Health, Thrive Global is collaborating with the OpenAI Startup Fund.
De Carlos Love will be Thrive AI Health’s CEO having previously worked on AI, sensors, health and fitness devices at Google and Apple.
Huffington claims that the new artificial intelligence coach will be accessible on the Thrive Global mobile app and included into their platform. Using generative artificial intelligence, Thrive AI Health seeks to “hyperpersonalize and scale behavior change.”
“It will learn your preferences and patterns across five key behaviors: what conditions help you get quality sleep; which foods you like and dislike; how and when you’re most likely to walk, move, and stretch; and the most effective ways to reduce stress,” Altman and Huffington said. “Combined with a superhuman long-term memory, you will have a totally integrated personal AI coach offering real-time nudges and recommendations tailored to you, enabling you to take action on your daily behaviors to improve your health.”
Sam Altman, Arianna Huffington Launch AI Health Coaching Company
Thrive AI Health will deliver personalized “nudges” toward better habits, the pair said, and could make better health accessible to all.
Read more: https://t.co/cfo8EgdnlY pic.twitter.com/vhUQ51OD9z— Mars Signals (@MarsSignals) July 8, 2024
Huffington underlined that everyone might gain from artificial intelligence and that it may increase productivity.
The pair added, “using AI this way would also scale and democratize the life-saving benefits of improving daily habits and address growing health inequities.”
With access to trainers, chefs, and life coaches, people with more resources already gain from behavior modification, they said. A hyper-personalized AI health coach would help make healthy behavior adjustments more accessible, though, as chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease are unevenly dispersed among demographics.
Strategic investor in the new project, the Alice L. Walton Foundation will also work with medical centers including Stanford Medicine and academic universities.
Information on the investments bolstering Thrive AI Health was withheld.
Various applications of artificial intelligence have made healthcare more approachable in various respects. For instance, ChatGPT from OpenAI has been used to clarify difficult medical diagnosis and terminology, therefore guiding patients and their families towards wise decisions.
Today Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announced the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company whose mission is to use AI to democratize access to expert-level health coaching to improve health outcomes. Read more in @TIME: https://t.co/TGYH1ZMC5c pic.twitter.com/VACQGTcqvY
— Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) July 9, 2024
“Some of that was the fuel; the fire ends up being our lack of knowledge of these lab tests and reports,” Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Research and Incubations Peter Lee said during a presentation at the annual Healthy Longevity Global Innovator Summit in October. “GPT’s capacity to provide us direction just brought the temperature down and really kept family harmony.”
Major Points:
- Arianna Huffington and Sam Altman have announced the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new AI health startup aimed at revolutionizing the wellness industry.
- Thrive AI Health will integrate a generative AI coach into Thrive Global’s platform and mobile app to provide hyper-personalized behavior change recommendations.
- DeCarlos Love, with experience at Google and Apple, will serve as the CEO of Thrive AI Health.
- The initiative aims to democratize health benefits, making behavior changes more accessible to those without resources for personal trainers or life coaches.
- The Alice L. Walton Foundation is a strategic investor, and the initiative will collaborate with institutions like Stanford Medicine.
Benjamin Naad – Reprinted with permission of Whatfinger News
