My mom passed away from breast cancer when I was 14 years old. What I remember most is how much work it was just to be sick. Referrals were made and forgotten, every new doctor meant starting over, and my family was left to fill in the gaps because the healthcare system never carried that weight for us.
I started Amigo because there are too many stories like mine.
We build, train, and deploy AI agents that can safely deliver care across clinical use cases such as intake and triage, chronic care management, and 24/7 virtual care.
AI is transforming every industry it touches, but healthcare has a higher bar. There's no room for errors or hallucinations, and definitely no second chances with patient lives. That's the problem no one in this space has solved.
We asked ourselves “how do you make AI safe enough to deliver care?” The answer was obvious: clinical agents need to be trained the same way we train doctors.
So we pioneered the industry's first Digital Residency program, training every AI agent against millions of simulated patient cases until they reach a 100% safety pass rate.
And it’s working.
In just the last six months, Amigo agents have completed over 3 million patient encounters around the world with zero safety incidents.
I'm proud to announce that Amigo has raised $17M to make healthcare work for everyone, including our $11M Series A led by Madrona with participation from Optum Ventures, General Catalyst, and GSV Ventures.
We have a real chance to build something better together. For healthcare organizations thinking about how AI can safely expand the reach of their care teams, I'd love to talk.
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.
But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that.
I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it.
More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.)
Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.
Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.
We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare.
One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path.
As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything.
We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win.
We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users.
This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.
It’s pretty wild to hate on the player THAT HAS HAD SUPERSTAR SESSONS FOR 6 YEARS AND Liverpool fans are going at him instead of the manager? You can’t drop him on the bench for 3 games in a row and not expect a reaction.
🚨🗣️ Jamie Carragher: "When we are talking about throwing people under the bus, Salah threw Liverpool right back under the bus for 8 years… Can you imagine playing behind him for 8 years?"
"But we accept it because he’s a superstar and he’s scored 250 goals and he’s given me as a Liverpool supporter one of the greatest nights of my life!"
Everyone you admire has a story about how they overcame challenging adversity. Foolish to be disillusioned when it's your turn. Should feel proud to be able to relate to such esteemed company. Embrace the character arc of who you're meant to be. Everything going according to plan
“As long as you are learning and you keep iterating fast and cutting your losses quickly, then when you find the right thing — you have to be optimistic and compound into it.”
- @naval