AI 411: May 2025 edition

Welcome back to AI 411, a monthly roundup of artificial intelligence (AI) announcements from across the healthcare industry.

This month, health tech companies saw big fundraisers and announced new products that use AI to support patient care.

Let’s get into it. Here is your roundup of health-related AI updates from May.

Akido. Akido, a Los Angeles-based care delivery company announced a $60 million Series B funding round on May 15. Funding was led by venture capitalist Oak HC/FT. The money will be used to bring to more patients the company’s system, ScopeAI, which supports medical appointments with AI tools that listen, take notes, and build clinical reports.

Compliment 1. New York startup Complement 1, a health tech that uses AI to personalize lifestyle treatments for patients with cancer, announced a $16 million seed round on May 13. The platform helps people experiencing issues with sleep and pain through lifestyle adjustments including “physical activity, nutrition, and somatic practices,” and the funding round was led by Owl Ventures and Blume Ventures.

Omada Health. San Francisco-based virtual provider Omada Health launched a new product called OmadaSpark on May 20. It’s an AI agent that will work with the company’s patients to provide nutrition education, support, and care for healthy eating.

Scripta. Massachusetts-based AI-based pharmacy tech company Scripta launched a new GLP-1 navigator in its app on May 20. Members can now see advice and resources related to weight management on the company’s Rx Navigation platform, which provides patients with pricing information on weight loss medications.

SoundHound AI. Voice AI company SoundHound AI, based in Santa Clara, California, announced May 29 a partnership with Minneapolis-based health system Allina Health. Under the partnership, SoundHound AI will deploy its AI agent Alli, which will answer phone calls and help manage appointments.

Wiley. Hoboken, New Jersey-based publication and research company Wiley announced May 5 a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services to create a generative AI agent that supports searches for scientific literature. According to a press release, “the AI agent will demonstrate how researchers can conduct comprehensive full-text scientific literature search” of Wiley’s journals. The approach is different from traditional searches because it will allow for not just abstract-only searches but also method- and results-based searches, the company said in the release.