Medical Foundation Models - with Tanishq Abraham (Sophont.AI)

Tanishq Abraham, co-founder of Sophont.ai, discusses training foundation models for medicine across pathology, neuroimaging and clinical text, with the aim of fusing them into one multimodal system. He reports that a pathology model trained on about 12,000 public slides performs on par with models trained on millions of private ones, illustrating data quality over quantity. The conversation focuses on finding signals clinicians cannot see, such as gene mutations predicted from tissue slides or cardiovascular risk from eye scans, and on regulatory paths for text-based clinical decision support and pharmaceutical partnerships.