Histoboard

Timeline

Chronological view of 54 pathology foundation models

54

Total Models

42

Pathology VMs

12

Pathology VLMs

6

Years Covered

27

Organizations

2026
Aug

RudolfV-2

DINOv2/DINOv3 + post-training

Aignostics

ViT-g/8
1.1B
NC

RudolfV-2-B

DINOv2 (distillation)

Aignostics

ViT-B/8
86M
NC

RudolfV-2-S

DINOv2 (distillation)

Aignostics

ViT-S/8
22M
NC
Jul

Mascaret

DINOv2 + robustness fine-tuning

Waiv

ViT-g/14
1.1B
NC

Phaet

DINOv2 + robustness fine-tuning

Waiv

ViT-L/16
307M
NC
Mar

GenBio-PathFM

DINOv3 + JEPA

GenBio AI

ViT-g/16
1.1B
NC

Prost40M

DINO

Radboud UMC

ViT-S/14
22M
Open
Jan

Atlas 2

DINOv2

Aignostics

ViT-G/8
2.0B
Closed
2025
Nov

OpenMidnight

DINOv2

Sophont AI

ViT-g/14
1.1B
Open
Jun

Patho-CLIP

VLM

Sichuan University

ViT-L/14
307M
NC
Apr

Midnight-12k

DINOv2

kaiko.ai

ViT-g/14
1.1B
NC
Mar

H-optimus-1

DINOv2

Bioptimus

ViT-g/14
1.1B
NC

PathOrchestra

DINOv2

AI4Pathology

ViT-L/16
307M
NC
Jan

Atlas

DINOv2

Aignostics

ViT-H/14
632M
Closed

H0-mini

DINOv2 (distillation)

Bioptimus

ViT-B/14
86M
NC

UNI2

DINOv2

Mahmood Lab

ViT-H/14
682M
NC
2024
Dec

KEEP

VLM

Shanghai University and others

ViT-L/16
307M
Open
Sep

CHIEF

Contrastive (SRCL) + Weakly supervised (CLIP)

Harvard Medical School

Swin-T (CTransPath)
28M
Open

CONCH 1.5

VLM

Mahmood Lab

ViT-L/16
307M
NC

Phikon-v2

DINOv2

Owkin

ViT-L/14
307M
NC
Aug

EXAONEPath

DINOv2

LG AI Research

ViT-B/16
86M
NC

Virchow2

DINOv2

Paige AI

ViT-H/14
632M
NC
Jul

GPFM

DINOv2 (distillation)

HKUST

ViT-L/14
303M
NC

H-optimus-0

DINOv2

Bioptimus

ViT-g/14
1.1B
Open

SP22M

DINO

Mount Sinai

ViT-S/16
22M
NC

SP85M

DINO

Mount Sinai

ViT-B/16
85M
NC

TITAN

VLM

Mahmood Lab

ViT-B/16
85M
NC
Jun

Hibou-B

DINOv2

Hist.ai

ViT-B/14
86M
Open

Hibou-L

DINOv2

Hist.ai

ViT-L/14
307M
Open

MUSK

VLM

Stanford University

V-FFN
202M
NC

Prov-GigaPath

DINOv2

Microsoft

ViT-g/14
1.1B
Open

RudolfV

DINOv2

Aignostics

ViT-L/14
307M
Closed
May

OmiCLIP

VLM

Houston Methodist Research Institute

ViT-L/16
306M
NC
Apr

Kaiko ViT-B/16

DINO

kaiko.ai

ViT-B/16
86M
NC

Kaiko ViT-B/8

DINO

kaiko.ai

ViT-B/8
86M
NC

Kaiko ViT-L/14

DINOv2

kaiko.ai

ViT-L/14
307M
NC

Kaiko ViT-S/16

DINO

kaiko.ai

ViT-S/16
22M
NC

Kaiko ViT-S/8

DINO

kaiko.ai

ViT-S/8
22M
NC
Mar

CONCH

VLM

Mahmood Lab

ViT-B/16
86M
NC

mSTAR

VLM

Tsinghua / HKUST

ViT-L/14
307M
NC

UNI

DINOv2

Mahmood Lab

ViT-L/16
307M
NC
Jan

Virchow

DINOv2

Paige AI

ViT-H/14
632M
Open
2023
Nov

Phikon

iBOT

Owkin

ViT-B/16
86M
NC
Jul

PLIP

VLM

Stanford

ViT-B/32
88M
Open
Jun

Lunit ViT-S/16

DINO

Lunit

ViT-S/16
22M
NC

Lunit ViT-S/8

DINO

Lunit

ViT-S/8
22M
NC

MI-Zero (BioClinical)

VLM

Harvard Medical School

ViT-B/16
86M
NC

MI-Zero (PubMed)

VLM

Harvard Medical School

ViT-B/16
86M
NC

QuiltNet

VLM

University of Washington

ViT-B/32
86M
Open
Jan

RetCCL

Clustering-guided Contrastive Learning (CCL)

Sichuan University

ResNet-50
23M
Open
2022
Jun

HIPT

DINO

Mahmood Lab

ViT-S/16
21M
NC
Apr

CTransPath

SRCL

Sichuan University

Swin-T/4
28M
Open
Jan

Ciga

SimCLR

University of Toronto

ResNet-18
11.7M
Open
2015
Dec

ResNet50 (ImageNet)

Supervised

Meta AI

ResNet-50
25M
Open