Overview

• OpenAI named Nate Gross to lead go-to-market for healthcare and appointed Ashley Alexander as vice president of product for its health business.
• Gross joined in June and Alexander started this week, as the company shifts from powering partners to building its own tools for patients and clinicians.
• OpenAI is recruiting additional health-focused roles, including a health AI research scientist and a healthcare software engineer.
• The company is promoting GPT-5’s performance on medical questions and launched HealthBench in May to help evaluate accuracy and safety of health AI.
• OpenAI continues pilot collaborations, such as Penda Health’s GPT-4o clinical copilot in Kenya, while facing safety scrutiny and competition from Microsoft, Google/DeepMind, and Palantir.