Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Paige
vision

Virchow2

Paige pathology foundation model trained with mixed magnifications; successor of Virchow.

PaigePaigeUSA
Figure from the Virchow2 paper: Highlighted modifications of DINOv2 tailored for pathology.
Levelmodel
Classvision
Parameters631.24M
Contextnot in the notes
Released1 Aug 2024
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

successor
Virchow to Virchow2: successor, high confidenceVirchowVirchowPaige, Jul 2024Virchow2Virchow2Paige, Aug 2024
PaigeVirchow is the parent (successor)high confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

Industry Use Cases

Healthcare
Pathology whole-slide imaging

R&D Topics

Computational pathology foundation modelsproduced by

Identity

Developer
Paige
Family
not in the notes
Released
1 Aug 2024 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
5 Aug 2024
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer
Total parameters
631.24M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
gated preview
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2408.00738 https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00738
  2. huggingface.co/paige-ai/Virchow2 https://huggingface.co/paige-ai/Virchow2
  3. huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=image-feature-extract... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=image-feature-extraction&sort=likes&limit=50

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Virchow2", https://aurion.semai.id/models/paige-virchow2/, records of October 2026.