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Kieron Allen guest-hosts today’s Cloud Wars Minute, taking a look at a new partnership between Microsoft and Paige that seeks to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for cancer identification.
Highlights
00:19 — There’s a new healthcare initiative supported by Microsoft. It’s teaming up with Paige, a leader in end-to-end digital pathology offerings and clinical AI, to build the world’s largest image-based AI model for cancer identification.
00:44 — Paige will utilize Microsoft’s supercomputing infrastructure to train the model at scale. The aim is to deploy it to hospitals and laboratories globally.
01:02 — In its press release, Microsoft says by combining its world-class research and cloud infrastructure with Paige’s deep expertise and large-scale data, it is creating new AI models that will enable unprecedented insights into the pathology of cancer.
01:36 — The sheer volume of data required to develop this latest model is incredible. It represents a great leap forward in the competency of AI to help fight the most complex healthcare challenges.
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