Latent Space Podcast: Abridge AI-Native Healthcare — 80M+ Conversations/Year, $5.3B Valuation, 250+ Health Systems

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Latent Space interviews Abridge founders Janie Lee and Chaitanya Asawa about scaling ambient clinical AI from documentation to full care intelligence. Abridge now processes 80M+ patient conversations/year across 250+ US health systems (including Kaiser, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins), supports 28+ languages and 50+ specialties, and raised $300M at $5.3B valuation. Key technical insight: they use a constellation model approach (frontier models for complex reasoning, proprietary models for cost/latency) because '80/20 doesn't work in healthcare.'