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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Michael Polansky, a former top deputy to Sean Parker, founded a startup that maintains living human skin tissue outside the body for extended periods to test skincare compounds using artificial intelligence. The company has operated in private for years before recent public disclosure. Polansky previously worked in venture capital and philanthropic roles at the Parker Foundation.
