Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

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Stanford professor James Zou is raising ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation for Human Intelligence, a startup using AI to study physiology, reflecting high valuations for academic AI spinouts.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/stanford-professor-targets-1-billion-valuation-for-ai-for-physiology-startup"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260424/i32.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260424/p32#a260424p32" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Rebecca Torrence / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/stanford-professor-targets-1-billion-valuation-for-ai-for-physiology-startup">Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Stanford University professor James Zou is raising money at a roughly $1 billion valuation to build artificial intelligence models &hellip; </p>