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Eva Steinman retweeted
Excited to see @BobbySamuels and the team @withprotegeai take this on.
Eva Steinman retweeted
Clinical AI can be life or death, especially as busy doctors increasingly rely on it to inform their decisions.
We shouldn't let AI companies grade their own homework. @withprotegeai is solving this, and today launched Independent Evaluations: double-blind evals built by healthcare experts on de-identified, real-world data that model builders have never seen.
This is the kind of trust infrastructure healthcare AI needs before it reaches patients. Congrats @BobbySamuels, @engyziedan, and team!
We’re used to optionality, clarity and convenience in so many parts of our lives. Yet when it comes to our health, where each decision is so personal and so consequential, we’re still piecing together records, making endless phone calls, and waiting for someone to tell us what it all costs and what happens next. Well...it’s time for something better!!
@GeneralMedicine is building the general store for healthcare: one place that brings together your history, clinical guidance, transparent prices, and access to thousands of products and services. The store is somewhere you can turn for care, and return to over time, never having to start from scratch. (And one day…never have to fill out another clipboard in the waiting room.)
A world where we can get high-quality care when we need it, fully understand our options, and know exactly what it will cost us; where finding and accessing care feels as intuitive as the best consumer experiences.
We couldn’t think of a better team to build this @tjparker @elliotcohen @ashwinkmurali . There’s so much to do and we’re just getting started!
@vintweeta @JorgeCondeBio @daisydwolf
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Eva Steinman retweeted
General Medicine has raised a $120M Series B led by @a16z. We're using it to build the healthcare store.
The only way healthcare will work is to make the customer the most powerful participant in the system. And the only way to do that is to let them shop.
Here’s why healthcare needs a store, and what we had to build to make it possible:
Eva Steinman retweeted
Most of the discussion on tasks for AI in medicine has been focused on purely cognitive decision-making
But most are underestimating the pace at which some (not all!) tasks in the world of surgery and other physical interventions may also be automated — it’s not “20 years away” as I often hear from folks
Love that the Aleph team is focused on finding tasks where generalizable autonomy will be impactful in the OR
We’re taking a massive swing at generalizable autonomy in the OR. Solving it means tackling some of the hardest problems at the intersection of robotics and medicine.
If that level of ambition excites you, reach out → alephsurgical.com/jobs
Eva Steinman retweeted
the best engineers yearn for the hardest problems
We’re taking a massive swing at generalizable autonomy in the OR. Solving it means tackling some of the hardest problems at the intersection of robotics and medicine.
If that level of ambition excites you, reach out → alephsurgical.com/jobs
Surgery is one of the most compelling opportunities for Physical AI - scaling expertise built over decades and bringing it to more patients.
@alephsurgery is taking on the challenge, building a fully autonomous surgical robot.
We at @a16z are honored to support @r_mcguire and @dylanmcguir3 as they build the future. @daisydwolf @oyhsu
If that level of ambition excites you, reach out!! alephsurgical.com/jobs
@dylanmcguir3 and I just raised a $7.5M pre-seed led by @a16z to build a robotic surgeon @alephsurgery
Much of the early investment in Physical AI has focused on industries where labor is relatively abundant and low-cost. We believe the biggest opportunities to change the world lie at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Surgery is among the most valuable forms of labor on the planet, but it's far too scarce and expensive - due to an exceptionally long training pipeline and highly concentrated expertise.
We’re building the first surgeon that scales: one system that can acquire, refine, and transfer surgical skills across millions of procedures. v1 is already learning to perform surgical tasks autonomously from demonstrations, and improve from its own experience.
Lots of great folks behind us! @BoxGroup, Reveille VC, Constellation, @forward_deploy, @Valkyrie_vc, @DiscipulusVent, @maniacvc + more
A must read piece by @illscience
“Individuality was supposed to be the luxury you bought once you’d made it. I think it’s about to become the thing everyone gets to spend their life on, the work itself. So when I picture where this goes, I see a lot of people making strange, beautiful, slightly pointless things and handing them around to see what happens. The toys were fine. But we always wanted to play with the boxes.”
Eva Steinman retweeted
VC interest in robotics is surging
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Eva Steinman retweeted
Latam is most definitely on the come up!
Listen to LatAm's road to a Nobel Prize 👇🏻
@daisydwolf @evajsteinman @GEVS94
We're thrilled to support @Nicobot01 as he brings the Nobel Prize in Medicine back to LatAm - building an AI doctor, built for doctors, by a team of doctors!
@a16z @daisydwolf @GEVS94
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Eva Steinman retweeted
Telepatia has raised $42 million, including a $33 million Series A led by a16z.
My father’s nickname was Telepatia.
He was a doctor who passed away at 58 from a preventable cause. A few days after his death, ChatGPT launched. My first thought was that an AI Doctor would have saved his life as a patient, and that he would have loved using one as a doctor. So we built it: an AI Doctor for doctors, by doctors.
Telepatia's AI Doctor is live in more than 25 public and private health institutions, home to more than 100,000 doctors and nurses throughout Latin America 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇲🇽🇨🇱🇦🇷
We're building an AI Doctor and our goal is to bring Latin America its first Nobel Prize in Medicine since 1984.
Eva Steinman retweeted
In the end (at the beginning?), nestled in a den of AI agents thinking about our health, managing all our meds, and arguing with all the other agents…
…we will all pray for easy vascular access and great surgical hands
These feel like the final frontier in care delivery. May the robots be magnificent
Eva Steinman retweeted
REQUEST FOR STARTUPS: There has never been a better time to build at the intersection of health and AI.
Every corner of medicine is being reimagined, and dermatology is one of the most compelling places to start.
Hear it from @evajsteinman 👇