Stanford professor James Zou eyes a $1 billion valuation for his new startup, Human Intelligence. The company aims to raise $100 million. It builds AI systems to probe human physiology. Sources close to the matter shared details with Bloomberg . Zou’s lab laid the groundwork with a physiology foundation model published in Nature Medicine this year. Human Intelligence shifts AI from text to biology. Traditional models crunch words. These handle multimodal health data—vitals, imaging, labs. The goal: predict disease progression, simulate organ responses. No more siloed diagnostics. Instead, integrated body-wide forecasts. Zou didn’t comment. But his track record speaks. PhD from Harvard in 2014. Gates Scholar at Cambridge. Simons fellow at Berkeley. Joined Stanford in 2016. Now associate professor of biomedical data science, with CS and EE courtesy roles. Two Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub awards. Sloan Fellowship. NSF CAREER. Awards from Google, Amazon, Adobe. His lab’s output dazzles.…