OpenAI has acquired health-tech startup Torch, the company said Monday. The acquisition marks an important step in their AI health assistant development.

The purchase price was about $60 million, according to a person familiar with the deal who asked not to be named because the terms were confidential. OpenAI and Torch did not publicly disclose financial details.

Torch was developing what it called a “unified medical memory” for artificial intelligence. The goal was to pull a patient’s health information into a single system.

Medical data is often scattered across hospitals, labs, insurers, and app providers. It is stored in different formats that do not easily work together. Torch aimed to organize that data so AI systems could better understand a person’s medical history.

Torch employees will join OpenAI as part of the acquisition, the companies said.

Torch chief executive Ilya Abyzov said the move would expand the reach of the company’s technology. In a post on X, he said Torch’s tools could now reach the large number of people who already use ChatGPT to ask health-related questions each week.

Abyzov previously co-founded Forward, a health-care startup focused on direct-to-consumer primary care. Forward offered patient visits through technology-enabled clinics known as CarePods. The company shut down operations abruptly in 2024.

The deal comes days after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health. The new product allows users to connect medical records and wellness apps to the chatbot.

OpenAI also announced new enterprise products designed for health-care organizations. Early partners include large health systems such as HCA Healthcare.

In December, OpenAI hired Albert Lee from Google to lead corporate development. The move signaled that the company planned to pursue more acquisitions to strengthen its position against competitors including Google and Anthropic.

OpenAI was active on the deal front in 2025. One of its largest transactions was the purchase of AI device startup io, founded by Jony Ive, for more than $6 billion in May.

As OpenAI acquires Torch, the move reinforces the company’s expanding push into health care, where artificial intelligence is being positioned to organize fragmented medical data and support patient care at scale.