Altman, Huffington launching AI health coach

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announced a new startup venture to create an artificial intelligence-driven health coach as an attempt to use “hyper-personalization” to better behavioral health.

Thrive AI Health, a cooperation between OpenAI and Huffington’s Thrive Global, will create an app to focus on habit-forming and behavior change, the pair announced in a Time magazine editorial on Monday.

“Yes, behavior change is hard. But through hyper-personalization,...