The Pathology AI Library

The library

Virchow2

Large pathology vision foundation model trained on a very large slide corpus.

Cost
Free for academic use
Hardware
Needs a workstation GPU
Offline
Works without a connection
Scanner
Not required
Your data
Stays on your machine
Licence
gated
Maturity
production
From
Paige AI
Model weightsPaper

What it is

Vision transformer trained self-supervised on a very large multi-institutional slide collection, released for research as a general-purpose tile encoder.

Caveats

Industry-released with gated access; the training corpus is not public.

Licence notes

Gated on Hugging Face; check the model card for permitted use.

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