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Karan Singhal

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Head of Health AI at OpenAI

Singhal co-led Med-PaLM, the first language model to achieve a passing score on medical-licensing-exam-style questions, and Med-PaLM 2, which improved its clinical answers. The work helped establish rigorous medical benchmarks for testing where general-purpose language models are useful—and where they remain unsafe.

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Head of Health AI
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2622,64316,99711,350Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
22,643citations as of Jun 15, '26+11,293 since Aug 25, '25
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