300M+ People Ask ChatGPT About Health Every Week. Here’s What’s Next.

OpenAI’s Karan Singhal explains on a16z why medical expertise is being built into general frontier models—not siloed in a separate healthcare model.

The opportunity: → Prepare patients for doctor visits → Help interpret lab results → Flag potential drug interactions → Prioritize safety over reassurance

The bigger goal: shrink the 5–17 year gap between medical research and everyday practice to days.

Not replacing doctors. Raising the floor of health access.

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