The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company
Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies AI to research on the human body, according to Bloomberg. Zou’s research includes an FDA-cleared cardiac AI (EchoNet), a Nature-published Virtual Lab that designed novel nanobodies, and a Virtual Biotech […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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