Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky, a tech entrepreneur and partner to Lady Gaga, is leading a startup called Outer Biosciences that focuses on keeping human tissue alive outside the body. The company is currently training AI models on this living tissue for undisclosed research purposes.
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Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos.
Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco, Polansky — bespectacled, his fresh face framed by dark hair shot through with gray — has the look and the friendly demeanor of a young professor.
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