Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's rival launch. Both entered a market that has already buried Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health. The question is whether AI models can succeed where human engineers kept failing
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Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's rival launch. Both entered a market that has already buried Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health. The question is whether AI models can succeed where human engineers kept failing
The timing was not subtle. OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Health on a Monday. Five days later, Anthropic fired back with Claude for Healthcare. The setting for both: JP Morgan's annual healthcare conference in San Francisco, where hospital executives hunt for capital and AI companies hunt for customers. HIPAA-ready infrastructure. Clinicians, insurers, patients. The pitch from both companies could have been written by the same marketing team.
And both entered a market littered with the remains of previous attempts by horizontal technology companies to fix American healthcare.
Anthropic is currently negotiating a $10 billion funding round that would value the company at $350 billion. The healthcare push is not charity work. It is a bet that Claude can succeed where Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health failed, where countless electronic health record integrations have stalled, where the promise of consolidated patient data has been made and broken for two decades.
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Within 72 hours of publishing its AI adoption report, Microsoft's messaging saturated LinkedIn. The coordination wasn't secret—it was architectural. When you own the platform, distribution is just moving furniture between rooms.
Google unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol at NRF, with Shopify, Walmart, and twenty other partners. The "open standard" routes AI shopping through Google's surfaces. Merchants trade customer relationships for visibility.
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