# Free feature or foundational platform? Investors have poured nearly $1 billion into the AI scri...

> Investors have poured nearly $1 billion into the AI scribe market this year, and this week's announcements from Doximity and Ambience Healthcare drew the battle lines clearly: is ambient AI documentation a free commodity feature, or the foundation of a dominant clinical workflow platform?

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Published: 2025-07-30
Updated: 2026-05-20
Author: Christian Hein
Tags: technology/artificial-intelligence, technology/digital-health, industry/health-tech, industry/digital-health-startups, function/digital-transformation

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Free feature or foundational platform? Investors have poured nearly $1 billion into the AI scribe market this year to find the answer.

This week, the battle lines were drawn with two major announcements:

- Doximity made its ambient scribe free, pushing the technology towards becoming a commodity (see my post yesterday for more details)

- And now Ambience Healthcare raised $243M to build a deeply integrated platform, aiming to create a powerful moat

It's clear that automated documentation is just the beginning. The ultimate goal is to own the clinical workflow itself.

Will we see a new dominant player emerge, an "Epic" for the AI era? Or is this a race to the bottom where the feature gets absorbed by existing platforms?

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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