SophontCo-founder and CEO
2025 — Present
Builds open multimodal medical foundation models.
Tanishq Abraham co-founded Sophont to build open-source multimodal foundation models for medicine and founded MedARC’s open research community. A former Research Director at Stability AI, he works across generative models, medical imaging and neuroscience, with contributions including MindEye and DALL·E mini.
Tanishq Abraham co-founded Sophont to build open-source multimodal foundation models for medicine and founded MedARC’s open research community. A former Research Director at Stability AI, he works across generative models, medical imaging and neuroscience, with contributions including MindEye and DALL·E mini.
Career
MedARCFounder and Research Leader
2023 — Present
Leads an open medical AI research collective, now supported by Sophont.
Stability AIResearch Director
Aug 2023 — 2025
Led medical and generative AI research and founded MedARC within the organization.
fast.aiInstructor, Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2
Sep 2022 — Feb 2023
Prepared notebooks, recorded lectures and supported the course community.
Cosigns Received
Featured Media
tanishq.ai
The Medical AI Manifesto
Abraham and Paul Scotti lay out their case for open, medically trained models that combine multiple types of patient data.
tanishq.ai
Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models from Scratch
A hands-on implementation of DDPO for optimizing diffusion models with reward signals.