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HealthifyMe launched Healthify Smart, the first consumer AI product, in 2018

Tushar Vashisht · @HealthifyMe founder on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India ft. Tushar Vashisht · Oct 18, 2021 · at 4:26

Tushar Vashisht, CEO of HealthifyMe, describes the 2018 launch of Healthify Smart, an AI coaching feature built on customer datasets.

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“And we launched the world's first consumer AI product called Healthify Smart.”

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The claim, plainly

In 2018, HealthifyMe launched Healthify Smart as the world's first consumer AI product.

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Assessment

The claim bundles two assertions: that HealthifyMe launched its AI-driven offering (Healthify Smart / Ria) around 2018, and that it was the world's first consumer AI product. While HealthifyMe unveiled its conversational AI nutritionist 'Ria' in October 2017, piloted it through 2018, and formally launched 'Smart Plans' (Healthify Smart) alongside Ria 2.0 in January 2019, the second assertion fails. HealthifyMe's own contemporary marketing described Ria specifically as the 'world's first conversational AI-enabled nutritionist,' not the first consumer AI product in general. Numerous major consumer AI products predate Healthify Smart by years, including Apple Siri (2011), Amazon Alexa (2014), Microsoft Cortana (2014), Google Assistant (2016), and Lark Health's AI health coach (2015). Because one leg holds in broad timeframe but the superlative assertion of being the first consumer AI product is factually incorrect, the claim resolves as partially true.

HealthifyMe unveiled Ria in beta in October 2017 and announced Smart Plans (Healthify Smart) with Ria 2.0 in January 2019.
HealthifyMe's primary claim at launch was being the 'world's first conversational AI-enabled nutritionist', not the world's first consumer AI product overall.
Multiple consumer AI products predate Healthify Smart, including Apple Siri (2011), Amazon Alexa (2014), Google Assistant (2016), and Lark Health (2015).

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