Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
TechCrunch Connie Loizos
Michael Polansky’s startup Outer Biosciences feeds an AI prediction loop with experiments run on human skin kept alive for up to a month. The company has raised roughly $23 million so far. That setup speeds discovery by generating a new candidate about every six weeks based on results from living-tissue testing fed back into the model.
Why it matters
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.