OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global launch AI health coaching venture

Leveraging generative AI, Thrive AI Health seeks to improve healthspan and lifespan via a personalized approach to behavior change.

The OpenAI Startup Fund, which aims to help AI companies “have a profound, positive impact on the world,” has joined forces with Thrive Global to launch an AI health coaching platform called Thrive AI Health. The new venture aims to democratize access to health coaching to address the rising trend of chronic diseases by promoting healthier daily behaviors.

My take on this: Thrive Global, founded by Arianna Huffington, is a wellness company that enhances productivity and employee health in over 200 organizations globally. Their new initiative, Thrive AI Health, combines their proven behavior change approach with cutting-edge AI technologies like improved memory and a specialized behavioral coaching model.

“So much of the conversation around AI has been about how much time it will save us and how productive it will make us,” wrote Huffington and OpenAI founder Sam Altman in a recent op-ed in TIME. “But AI could go well beyond efficiency and optimization to something much more fundamental: improving both our health spans and our lifespans.”

Leveraging generative AI to create a “hyper-personalized” approach to behavior change, Thrive AI Health is targeting five daily behaviors: sleep, food, fitness, stress management and connection. By focusing on these areas, the company believes it can significantly improve health outcomes.

Dive deeper into how the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global are using AI to enhance accessibility to health and wellness for everyone right HERE.

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