MedCity News January 11, 2026
Katie Adams

AI rivals Anthropic and OpenAI are both expanding their large language models into healthcare. Anthropic is blending its enterprise and consumer tools in a single platform, while OpenAI is separating its consumer-facing ChatGPT Health from its industry-focused OpenAI for Healthcare. They are both targeting patients, providers and researchers with AI tools for tasks ranging from personal health insights to coding to prior authorization.

Two San Francisco-based AI rivals — Anthropic and OpenAI, the makers of the widely used large language models Claude and ChatGPT, respectively — both announced major pushes into healthcare in the days leading up to this year’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Last Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Health, a dedicated health experience within ChatGPT that combines a user’s...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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