Altman, Huffington Debut AI Health Assistant

Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, wrote a big opinion piece in Time this summer about their new company, Thrive AI Health

This business aims to make an AI-powered assistant that will help people live healthier lives. “Thrive AI Health” would like to make an “AI health coach” that can give personalized tips on sleep, food, fitness, stress management, and “connection.” It would be backed by Huffington’s mental wellness company Thrive Global and the OpenAI Startup Fund.

After a few months, Thrive AI Health’s helper still looks like it’s being worked on.

On Thrive AI Health’s website, TechCrunch found a demo of a minimum viable form of the company’s product. The demo mostly doesn’t do anything but has a working user interface that looks like chats like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It asks questions like “Can you look at how I sleep?” and “What was my heart rate over the last week?” and gives you spaces to fill in your age, weight, and any health problems you already have.

“Check out our features to keep track of your health journey, keep track of your activities, and get personalized insights,” says a welcome message. “Every step of the way, we’re here to help you do well!”

Thrive AI Health has been surprisingly quiet since it was first shown off four months ago. DeCarlos Love, the company’s CEO, hasn’t written on X since July. Thrive AI Health hasn’t done much with the news other than start a sign-up for a beta program.

Function Health is a premium personal health management platform. In October, Thrive released a press release saying that Function Health subscribers can share their data with Thrive’s health coach to get “hyper-personalized behavior change recommendations” and “real-time guidance tailored to their unique health patterns.”