By Danny Sullivan
Publication Date: 2026-03-24 17:34:00
New tool harnesses data from multiple sources to provide users with health insights as tech giants vie for AI health dominance.
Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health, heralding the company’s entry into an AI-powered consumer health market that is fast becoming one of the most contested areas in Big Tech – and one that has potentially significant implications for longevity. The announcement puts Perplexity squarely in the mix of a crowded and rapidly evolving field, where the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon have already begun staking claims.
Claiming millions of people already use its AI-powered search platform to ask health-related questions, the company said it created Perplexity Health to improve its ability to respond to such questions by leveraging personal health information to allow users to receive answers grounded in their own records, trends and daily data. Targeting the fragmented nature of health data, which is often spread across provider portals, lab accounts, pharmacy apps and wearable dashboards, Perplexity Health aims to pull those pieces together into a single view, combining medical records, lab results and activity data in one place and presenting them through a personalized dashboard that tracks metrics and biomarker trends over time.
The new product is described as a “suite of connectors” that link Perplexity Computer, the company’s AI agent platform, to personal health sources including Apple Health, electronic health records…
