# OpenAI — Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-06-18T08:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/diagnose-rare-childhood-diseases
- Record: https://forck.live/items/63-using-ai-to-help-physicians-diagnose-rare-genetic-diseases-affecting-children

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/diagnose-rare-childhood-diseases:

> Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

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