OpenAI has announced that it has acquired San Francisco-based medical technology startup Torch. The deal is valued at about $100 million in OpenAI stock, sources told The Information. The company’s co-founder Adrian Aun also said in a LinkedIn post that the amount was more than $100 million.
Torch was working on an artificial intelligence application that would integrate all of a person’s medical data — including doctor appointments, lab tests and wearable stats — into a single platform. The startup calls the technology “medical memory for AI.”
Torch’s four-person team will be moving to OpenAI. In January 2026, a new section called Health was added to ChatGPT. This section allows for the integration of health monitoring apps and electronic health records. It has not yet been announced what roles the former Torch employees will take at OpenAI.
Torch co-founders Ilya Abyzov and Adrian Aun co-founded Forward in 2016. The company was developing AI-based medical offices for doctors. Although Forward attracted more than $400 million in investment in 2024, it soon ceased operations, stopped supporting the application and laid off 200 staff. According to Aun, the project was ahead of its time.
Ilya Abyzov previously worked at Uber, where he led the launch of the UberX fare and managed the company's San Francisco division. He graduated from Dartmouth College and Stanford Business School.
Adrian Aun, before founding Forward, worked on special projects for then-Google CEO Larry Page. One of them was Sidewalk Labs, a company engaged in the development of "smart cities".
