Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
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.
He is, in fact, both the founder of a buzzy AI and biology startup called Outer Biosciencesand the creative, business, and romantic partner to Stefani Germanotta — better known as Lady Gaga. It’s an unlikely double life. On the one hand, the couple invariably moves in the world that comes with celebrity; on the other, he’s running an outfit that has spent years figuring out how to keep living human tissue alive outside the body — for over a month, so far —...
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