Dado Ruvic | Reuters

达多·鲁维奇 | 路透社

OpenAI has

OpenAI已经

acquired

获得

the health-care technology startup

医疗保健技术初创公司

Torch

火炬

, the company announced on Monday.

，公司于周一宣布。

Torch was building a 'unified medical memory' for

Torch 正在构建一个“统一的医疗记忆”用于

artificial intelligence

人工智能

that aimed to bring a patient's health data, which is typically siloed and stored across a number of different vendors and formats, into one place.

旨在将患者的健康数据（通常分散并存储在多个不同的供应商和格式中）整合到一个地方。

Torch's employees will join OpenAI as part of the deal, the companies said. OpenAI and Torch did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.

公司表示，作为交易的一部分，Torch 的员工将加入 OpenAI。OpenAI 和 Torch 未披露收购条款。

'I can't imagine a better next chapter than to now get to put our technology and ideas in the hands of the hundreds of millions of people who already use ChatGPT for health questions every week,' Torch CEO

“我想不出比这更好的下一章了，现在我们可以将我们的技术和理念交到每周已经使用ChatGPT进行健康咨询的数亿人手中，”Torch首席执行官表示。

Ilya Abyzov

伊利亚·阿比佐夫

wrote in a post on X.

在X平台的一篇帖子中写道。

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微软被揭露为密歇根州乡镇有争议的数据中心提案背后的公司

Alphabet's market cap surpasses Apple's for first time since 2019

自2019年以来，Alphabet的市值首次超过苹果。

Google, Character.AI to settle suits involving minor suicides and AI chatbots

谷歌、Character.AI 将就涉及未成年人自杀和人工智能聊天机器人的诉讼达成和解

Abyzov previously co-founded another health-care startup called Forward, which was a direct-to-consumer primary care business that carried out patient visits via tech-enabled 'CarePods.' Forward

阿比佐夫此前还共同创立了另一家名为Forward的医疗保健初创公司，这是一家直接面向消费者的初级保健业务，通过技术赋能的“CarePods”进行患者就诊。

abruptly shuttered

突然关闭

operations in 2024.

2024年的运营。

OpenAI's acquisition of Torch comes just days after it unveiled

OpenAI收购Torch的消息发布仅数天后

ChatGPT Health

ChatGPT 健康

, a new experience that allows users connect their medical records and wellness apps to the AI chatbot.

，一种全新的体验，允许用户将其医疗记录和健康应用连接到人工智能聊天机器人。

The company also

公司还

announced

宣布

several enterprise-grade products for health-care organizations. Some of its initial partners include large health systems like HCA Healthcare.

几家面向医疗保健组织的企业级产品。其部分初始合作伙伴包括像HCA Healthcare这样的大型医疗系统。

In December, OpenAI hired

去年12月，OpenAI聘请了

Google's

谷歌的

Albert Lee

阿尔伯特·李

to lead corporate development, a signal that the company will continue to hunt for M&A targets that can help it gain an edge over rivals like

领导企业的发展，这一信号表明公司将继续寻找可以帮助其在与竞争对手的竞争中占据优势的并购目标，如

Google

谷歌

and

和

Anthropic

Anthropic

.

。

The company made several acquisitions in 2025, including Jony Ive's AI devices startup io for more than

该公司在2025年进行了多次收购，包括以超过某金额收购Jony Ive的人工智能设备初创公司io。

$6 billion

60亿美元

in May.

五月。

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