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Bloomberg Tech speaks with Dina Shakir of Lux Capital about where the next major wave of AI value creation is heading, with healthcare and physical robotics at the center of the thesis. The conversation opens with Shakir contextualizing recent AI safety disclosures from Anthropic and OpenAI — framing them not as cause for alarm but as evidence that models are advancing rapidly enough to interact meaningfully with the real world, making trust infrastructure and deployment architecture the critical next frontier.
On healthcare specifically, Shakir notes that both Anthropic and OpenAI have gone on record naming life sciences as a top priority, with ChatGPT’s health product built around partnerships that connect EMR records, Apple Health, and lab data to model capabilities. Her argument is that this partnership dependency is actually a structural opportunity for startups: rather than competing at the model layer, third-party companies can own deployment, integration, and domain-specific applications that the large labs cannot build in isolation.
She also flags physical AI and robotics as a massive early-stage opportunity, drawing an analogy to how “tech” once seemed like a sector and eventually became the operating layer for everything. Shakir observes that private markets are drawing in legacy Wall Street institutions — private equity and mutual funds — earlier than in previous technology cycles, reflecting broad conviction that AI-era value creation is still in its earliest innings despite the rapid pace of recent announcements.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Tech · Published July 31, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
