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Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute<\/a> \u2014 your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the \u201creimagination machine\u201d that is the cloud.<\/p>\n In today\u2019s Cloud Wars Minute, I look at how Microsoft Research and Paige are rethinking pathology AI by training PRISM 2 on images and real-world clinical language.<\/p>\n Highlights<\/p>\n 00:04 \u2014 Microsoft Research and the healthcare<\/a> company Paige have developed a pathology foundation model called PRISM 2. Now, what makes it interesting is the model is trained on both tissue images and real-world pathology report language.<\/p>\n 00:31 \u2014 The difference is that many traditional AI systems are built around a specific task. PRISM 2, on the other hand, is designed to handle multiple cancer<\/a> detection, biomarker prediction, and research tasks without having to build a completely new model every time. The researchers report that PRISM 2 performs strongly across a range of pathology benchmarks.<\/p>\n Community Summit North America<\/a> is the largest independent innovation, education, and training event for Microsoft business applications delivered by Expert Users, Microsoft Leaders, MVPs, and Partners. Register now<\/a> to attend Community Summit in Nashville, TN from October 11-15. <\/p>\n 00:54 \u2014 The model has also been made available for non-commercial research, which could really help push the field forward further. What I find really interesting is that PRISM 2 is trained on almost two and a half million whole-slide images, along with the pathology reports that go with them.<\/p>\n 01:10 \u2014 The model isn\u2019t just learning what cancer looks like under a microscope, but is also learning how pathologists actually describe what they can see. Advancing healthcare has always been one of the core goals of AI, but for that to happen, I think it\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that we need to think differently about how we train these models.<\/p>\n 01:36 \u2014 I think this is a really interesting step forward, specifically in pathology, and with the model available for research, it could give researchers another tool to explore what\u2019s possible when you bring medical images and clinical language together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute \u2014 your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,420,7829,155,49,320,7828],"class_list":["post-143768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-ai","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-featured","tag-healthcare","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780580052_557_Speciality-Summit-NA-Nashville-2026-1024x516.png\")
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