On June 25, 2026, UpDoc Inc., a clinical AI company, announced that it received clearance from FDA for what the company describes as the first Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) that uses patient-facing large language models (LLMs). UpDoc describes its platform as an enterprise-ready agentic clinical AI platform designed to enable clinicians to deploy AI agents that are integrated with a provider’s electronic health record and other workflows to perform certain care-related tasks.