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What Happens When Everyone Has a Health Expert in Their Pocket? | OpenAI’s Karan Singhal

The a16z Show

Published
October 20, 2026
Duration
55:50
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Last updated
Oct 21, 2026

Discusses openai.

Summary

More than 300 million people use ChatGPT for health and wellness questions each week. OpenAI’s Karan Singhal thinks that’s only the beginning: the longer-term goal is AI that can help people navigate their health proactively, while making trustworthy medical intelligence dramatically more accessible.Karan joins a16z Partner Jay Rughani to explain why Open…

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More than 300 million people use ChatGPT for health and wellness questions each week. OpenAI’s Karan Singhal thinks that’s only the beginning: the longer-term goal is AI that can help people navigate their health proactively, while making trustworthy medical intelligence dramatically more accessible.Karan joins a16z Partner Jay Rughani to explain why OpenAI trains healthcare expertise directly into its general-purpose frontier models, how it works with hundreds of medical experts to evaluate saf

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  • openai