An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI
Wired AI Isabella Ward
Hemispheric, founded by an Apple FaceID co-inventor, raised $52 million to develop AI models that diagnose cognitive disorders by analyzing brain electrical activity from EEG headsets. The startup trained its deep-learning model on 250,000 hours of brain data collected from 100,000 people and plans to submit its first product for PTSD diagnosis to the FDA in early 2025, with public availability targeted for late 2027. The approach aims to replace subjective questionnaires with objective AI-assisted diagnosis that could eventually function as simply and cheaply as a blood test.
Why it matters
Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.
