Zachary Lipton is the Co-founder and CTO of Abridge, an AI healthcare company that recently raised $300M at a $5.3B valuation to transform clinical documentation with ambient AI. 

We discuss his journey from jazz musician to ML researcher to startup co-founder, and how personal experience led him to reinvent the doctor–patient encounter. 

We also discuss: 

- Deploying AI in live hospital settings,

- How ambient AI is reshaping clinical documentation at scale, 

- What it takes to deeply integrate with systems like Epic, 

- The LLM moment and how ChatGPT changed the game for healthcare, 

- Navigating safety, privacy, and compliance in high-stakes environments, 

- And much more!

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery explores how AI is reshaping industries in real-time. This season, we're diving deep into one of the most impactful and high-stakes applications of AI: healthcare.

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[00:00] – Up Next 

[00:45] – Episode Introduction 

[02:25] – Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform 

[03:50] – A Personal Health Crisis Sparks a Startup 

[13:08] – The LLM Moment 

[22:00] – Reimagining Doctor-Patient Encounters with AI 

[27:50] – Embedding AI in Complex Clinical Workflows: The Abridge Playbook 

[32:05] – “This Saved My Marriage”: What Clinicians Really Think 

[36:16] – Making AI Smarter with Context 

[44:40] – Can AI Fix Healthcare’s Broken Billing System? 

[51:05] – Scaling AI in Regulated, High-Stakes Environments 

[52:30] – Why This Work Matters: Leadership, Mission, and Impact

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Date de publication : 23/7/2025 à 19:50:02