EP27: Medical Foundation Models - with Tanishq Abraham (Sophont.AI)

The Information Bottleneck · Mar 2, 2026 · 1h 25m

Tanishq Abraham, CEO and co-founder of Sophont.ai, joins us to talk about building foundation models specifically for medicine.

Sophont is trying to be something like an OpenAI or Anthropic but for healthcare - training models across pathology, neuroimaging, and clinical text, to eventually fuse them into one multimodal system. The surprising part: their pathology model trained on 12,000 public slides performs on par with models trained on millions of private ones. Data quality beats data quantity.

We talk about what actually excites Tanishq, which is not replacing doctors, but finding things…