GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: efficient pathology foundation models for whole-slide and tumor microenvironment analysis

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Microsoft researchers released GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash (arXiv 2607.18218), efficiency-focused successors in the GigaPath line of computational pathology foundation models, covering both whole-slide analysis and tumor microenvironment characterization. The 'Flash' framing signals the shift in medical foundation models from maximum accuracy to deployable inference cost — the same pressure that produced small edge models elsewhere this week. Relevant to anyone building vertical agents where the domain model, not the orchestrator, is the bottleneck.