Stanford Professor Targets $1 Billion Valuation For AI-for-Physiology Startup

Stanford University professor James Zou is raising money at a roughly $1 billion valuation to build artificial intelligence models to improve research about the human body, according to sources familiar with the efforts.

The company, called Human Intelligence, will build on Zou’s research on physiology and AI. It’s aiming to raise about $100 million, one of the people said. Zou didn’t respond to requests for comment.