Microsoft in pact to build world’s largest image-based AI model for cancer detection
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Paige, a privately held provider of digital pathology solutions, announced a partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on Thursday to leverage the power of artificial intelligence to build the world's largest image-based AI model for cancer detection.
Paige already operates an AI model using over 1B images from 500K pathology slides based on multiple cancer types.

The new model "is orders-of-magnitude larger than any other image-based AI model existing today," the company said, adding that it will incorporate 4M digitized microscopy slides of cancer.
The New York-based software developer will use Microsoft's (MSFT) supercomputing infrastructure to train the technology and utilize the tech giant's Azure cloud computing platform to deploy it globally.
Paige, a spinoff of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is the first company to receive FDA approval for a clinical AI application in digital pathology.


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