How August Is Building the 'World’s Largest Consumer Health AI' | Decoding AI Episode 12

About this episode

Anuruddh Mishra discusses the development of August AI, an AI-led health companion aimed at enhancing patient support beyond traditional doctor visits.

Doctor visits are short. Health journeys are long. In this episode, Anuruddh Mishra, Founder & CEO of August AI, talks about building an AI-led health companion designed to support patients beyond brief clinical interactions. He shares how August is built to retain personal health context over time, stay available when questions come up, and help people make sense of scattered medical information across their journey. Watch the full episode for the complete conversation. Chapters: 0:09 - Intro 0:33 - What is an AI health companion 3:06 - As an engineer, why did you choose to get into this field related to health? 8:04 - Did you worry about ChatGPT being a competition? 10:15 - How do you look at benchmarks? 14:31 - How is it performing versus human doctors? 15:40 - Why are you a horizontal health AI platform? 17:53 - Where does August AI stand in terms of memory? 21:37 - Is August’s memory different from general purpose memory? 21:53 - Are there any general purpose memory tools or do you have to build everything in-house? 23:00 - How much did you spend on marketing? 24:15 - What did you do in the early days to get this magical market pull? 27:30 - How did you go about fundraising…

People in this episode

Guest: Anuruddh Mishra

Topics covered

• AI health companion
• health technology
• patient support
• medical information

Keywords

• health AI
• clinical interactions
• personal health context
• medical knowledge

Mentioned in this episode

Products: August, ChatGPT, August AI

Books & works: Decoding AI

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