Karan Singhal is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence, specializing in the intersection of AI and healthcare. He currently heads the Health AI team at OpenAI, where he focuses on developing large language models (LLMs) that aim to make medical expertise universally accessible and ensure safety in high-stakes health applications.

Before joining OpenAI, Singhal was instrumental in the development of Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2 at Google, AI models designed for medical question answering. These models were integrated into Google Cloud and received recognition in prominent publications such as Nature, Scientific American, The Economist, and the BBC.