OpenAI Group PBC announced today that it has acquired Torch Health Inc., a healthcare technology startup focused on unifying personal medical data, as the artificial intelligence company moves to expand its efforts in health-related applications.

The price of the acquisition was not officially disclosed and reports vary as to how much was paid. The Information claims that the acquisition was “about $100 million,” while CNBC pegs the price at “roughly $60 million.”

Founded in 2024, Torch offers an AI-powered health app designed to aggregate fragmented medical information from multiple sources, including healthcare providers, diagnostic labs and personal health data.

Torch consolidates medical data such as lab results, prescriptions, diagnoses and treatment histories into a single, normalized view with an aim to reduce record fragmentation that can leave patients and clinicians working with incomplete or outdated information.

The app can also capture and organize unstructured health information that is often lost or underutilized, such as recordings or summaries of doctor visits, care instructions and contextual notes to preserve the data alongside clinical records to help maintain continuity across appointments and providers.

Under the hood, Torch uses AI to make the aggregated information more accessible and useful, including the ability to summarize complex medical data, identify patterns over time and present information in a format that is easier for users to understand.

In a post on X, OpenAI said that bringing together Torch with ChatGPT Health “opens up a new way to understand and manage your health.”

The deal aligns with OpenAI’s broader push to make ChatGPT more useful in specialized domains by allowing it to work with structured, user-authorized data, rather than relying solely on general-purpose models and conversational inputs.

The deal also comes less than a week since OpenAI previewed ChatGPT Health, a new service that, once fully launched, will support a wide range of healthcare-related prompts. The service promises to allow users to explain lab results, put together an exercise plan and recommend questions to ask during a medical appointment.

The acquisition of Torch can only help in the ChatGPT Health endeavor by giving OpenAI technology and expertise aimed at safely connecting AI systems with personal health records. The acquisition also suggests that OpenAI is positioning itself to play a larger role in consumer-facing health tools while also laying groundwork for future partnerships with healthcare providers and platforms.

“We started Torch to build a medical memory for AI, unifying scattered records into a context engine that helps you see the full picture, connect the dots and make sure nothing important gets lost in the noise again,” Torch’s founders said on its website. “Now, we’re joining OpenAI to realize that vision at a bigger scale than we could have ever achieved on our own.”

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