Healthify, an AI-powered fitness app, has become the first Indian company to be recognized by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. This is for their work in improving millions of lives with sustainable weight loss, as per a company statement.
This recognition joins the ranks of companies like Tinder, WHOOP, and Stripe. “Since introducing AI in its coaching and tracking components, Healthify has already helped users lose an aggregate of 25 million+ pounds,” reads a statement by OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker mentions that, with the help of OpenAI, Healthify is both tracking and scaling up coaching.
Further, with OpenAI's technology, Healthify plans to launch in 20 countries this year. Healthify made strides in AI with the launch of Ria, an AI-powered virtual nutritionist, and Coach Co-pilot—its coach-facing assistant.
“Ria utilised hierarchical LSTMs (long short-term memory) and custom NLU (natural language understanding) systems to accurately recognize user intents and provide relevant answers,” reads a company statement by OpenAI.
Further, in 2021, Healthify introduced Snap. It is a feature that simplifies calorie counting via photo recognition. With a particular focus on Indian food items, Snap used “convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and proprietary models”.
However, Healthify’s AI modification faced its own share of challenges. Snap struggles to recognise food when the image has multiple food items. Simultaneously, it took multiple attempts for Snap to recognise food correctly. The company had to adapt to each language and culture as per different countries. “It took us two years to enter Southeast Asia,” said Tushar Vashisht, Healthify CEO.
Several companies are collaborating with OpenAI. A report by 404 Media says that WordPress and Tumblr are in talks to sell their content to OpenAI for training purposes.
In another turn of events, Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for allegedly focusing on profit, not humanity. Musk, one of the early funders of OpenAI, said that this was a breach of the AI-based start-up agreement.
Following this, OpenAI wrote an open letter in which it said that it would build AI responsibly. After this, Altman wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Progress in AI will be one of the biggest factors in improving people’s quality of life; we need to build it and make it widely available.”
