Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

Source: techcrunch.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:31:04 GMT

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.