A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test
One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain.
His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple. It wants a brain test to be as routine as a blood draw.
The founders are an unusual pair. Hagai Lalazar, a computational neuroscientist, is chief executive. Gidi Littwin, who co-founded RealFace and helped invent Face ID, is chief technology officer. He later worked on the AI behind Apple’s Vision Pro.
Reading the brain without surgery
Their model is called Descartes. It has 6 billion parameters, and it was trained on 250,000 hours of brain recordings from more than 100,000 people. Hemispheric says that is one of the largest datasets of its kind.
The test is light. A patient wears...
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