Nvidia Invests in Doctolib: Plans for an AI Health Assistant for Patients
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Nvidia Invests in Doctolib: The U.S. chipmaker has acquired a minority stake in the French healthcare platform, which is also one of the leading providers of doctor appointment services in Germany. With the fresh capital, Doctolib plans to develop its own AI language models and launch a personal health assistant for patients. Doctolib and Nvidia have jointly announced the investment. Neither company has yet disclosed the size of Nvidia's future stake in Doctolib or the amount of the investment. One detail stands out as unusual: Nvidia is foregoing a seat on Doctolib's supervisory board, as Doctolib CEO and co-founder Stanislas Niox-Château announced. According to Niox-Château, the fresh capital will primarily be used to recruit new employees in order to accelerate the development of the company's own AI models. Doctolib reports that its current market value is just under four billion euros - making it one of the most valuable European healthcare startups. There also appears to be a political component to the deal: According to Niox-Château, Doctolib wants to develop alternatives to the language models offered by U.S. providers such as OpenAI or Anthropic. To that end, Nvidia's hardware and open-source software will be used to create a proprietary AI platform controlled entirely by Doctolib. Proprietary models, proprietary data, proprietary control - that's the basic strategy...
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