AI Health Startup Hippocratic AI Secures $50 Million in Funding from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst

Hippocratic AI, an AI health startup with a generative artificial intelligence tool, has raised $50 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. The startup's AI tool provides patients with non-diagnostic information, such as pre-operation instructions, and can explain medical bills or insurance procedures. The system relies on a large language model approach that feeds into its natural language processing to recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text. The startup is also training its technology to reflect the “bedside manner” of a physician or nurse. Hippocratic doesn't intend to replace a physician but offers generative AI to support roles and actors in the health care system.