Sheinbaum meets with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman to discuss AI’s potential in Mexican healthcare

President Claudia Sheinbaum met on Wednesday with Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based company that created ChatGPT. “At the National Palace, we welcomed OpenAI’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman and his team,” Sheinbaum wrote on social media. En Palacio Nacional, recibimos al presidente y cofundador de OpenAI, Greg Brockman, y a su equipo; conversamos sobre las diversas aplicaciones de la inteligencia artificial, particularmente en el sector Salud. Coincidimos en que esta tecnología puede generar beneficios en atención médica. — Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) November 12, 2026 “We discussed the various applications of artificial intelligence, particularly in the healthcare sector. We agreed that this technology can bring benefits to healthcare,” she wrote. Sheinbaum’s meeting with Brockman came a few weeks after the federal government announced the establishment of an Advisory Council for the Digital Transformation of the Health Sector, which is aimed at improving the control, storage and distribution of medications. Members of the council will use digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect medication shortages — a long-running problem in Mexico — track warehouse inventory and expedite delivery to public hospitals and health centers. There was no indication from Sheinbaum that OpenAI is going to collaborate withe the council in any way. However, it is clear that the federal government is seeking to use AI as a means to improve healthcare in Mexico. At her Thursday morning press conference, Sheinbaum told reporters that her government is interested in collaborating with China on “different issues,” one of which is “smart hospitals.” “We’re very interested in the smart hospitals they have in China,” she said ahead of her trip to Shenzhen to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting. “… [We want to] implement this model in our country,” Sheinbaum said. A smart hospital is a healthcare facility that uses a range of technology, including AI, to automate certain tasks and improve patient care. The president is not the only Mexican official to have met with an OpenAI executive. Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the United States in early September. Jensen Huang, who resigned as CEO of chipmaker Nvidia on Thursday, and Tom Brown, co-founder of the AI company Anthropic, also met Ebrard at a G20 meeting in North Carolina. According to the Economy Ministry, Ebrard said at the time that “Mexico must develop its capabilities in AI, given that the impact AI will have on the economy is as disruptive as the impact the advent of electricity once had on manufacturing.” Mexico News Daily