Sophont is a public-benefit corporation founded in 2025, aiming to build open, universal multimodal foundation models for healthcare. The company focuses on developing medical AI that understands pathology, neuroimaging, clinical text, and more, empowering clinicians and researchers worldwide. It partners with academia, hospitals, and industry to release large-scale, transparent multimodal models, positioning itself as the “DeepSeek of medical AI.”

Sophont is committed to transforming healthcare and life sciences through advanced medical AI research. Their research includes developing foundation models for various medical domains such as pathology, neuroimaging, and genomics. The company actively publishes its work in top conferences and scientific journals, emphasizing open science and collaboration with the research community, including running an active open science Discord server named MedARC.

The leadership includes Tanishq Mathew Abraham (CEO), a former Research Director at Stability AI and founder of MedARC, and Paul Scotti (CTO), a former Head of NeuroAI at Stability AI and visiting research scientist at Princeton Neuroscience Institute.

Sophont seeks founding team members passionate about the potential of open, multimodal AI to transform healthcare. Current job postings include positions such as Founding Research Engineer - LLM Team and Founding Research Scientist - Vision Team, with roles focused on leading and contributing to impactful medical AI research projects. They offer competitive compensation, equity incentives, comprehensive benefits, and a remote work environment with a preference for candidates in the US.