DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane WORLD'S LARGEST AI MODEL TO FIGHT CANCER Source: AI & Cancer Stock Microsoft and digital pathology company Paige are partnering to build an AI model to revolutionize cancer detection Here's what we know: It will be the world's largest image-based AI model to detect & fight cancer Size and scale of the AI model will be unprecedented It will contain more data than Netflix and by orders of magnitude more data than anything made public by Google and Facebook Significant potential to radically change the detection & treatment of cancer Expected to significantly reduce the number of misdiagnoses that result in 800,000 deaths & disabilities in US yearly Using Microsoft supercomputers Paige will incorporate 4 million digitized microscopy slides into the system Until now, systems have been trained on 100,000 The new AI model will be trained on