AI Weekly Malaysia

Michael Polansky, founder of Outer Biosciences (and Lady Gaga's partner), has spent years developing methods to keep living human skin tissue alive outside the body for over a month, and is training AI models on that living tissue data. The startup has operated largely in stealth, and the article profiles Polansky's path from Harvard applied math to Bridgewater Associates to Founders Fund before founding the biotech AI company.

Why: For AI/ML builders, the notable technical claim is keeping living human tissue viable ex-vivo for 30+ days and using it as a training data source for AI models — a data pipeline approach that diverges from standard clinical or synthetic datasets. However, the article is mostly a founder profile with no technical detail on the model architecture, dataset size, or validation results, so there is little actionable takeaway for builders outside biotech. It may be worth tracking Outer Biosciences if you work at the AI-biology intersection or are exploring novel biological data acquisition strategies.