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Google’s Chatbot Health Move Can’t Be Far Behind OpenAI’s

DATE POSTED:January 8, 2026

OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer

In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features are in a trial phase with a subset of paid users for now. (See  our report on Wednesday, which we published around the time OpenAI posted its blog item).