Tempus Launches the PRECISION Challenge, a National Program Opening Its Foundation Model Work to the Broader Research Community
Inaugural program provides unprecedented access to Tempus' library of de-identified multimodal data and models, scalable compute infrastructure and direct funding to catalyze clinical and technical breakthroughs
Tempus AI, Inc. (NASDAQ:TEM), a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine, today announced the launch of the PRECISION Challenge, a national initiative engineered to accelerate the next generation of oncology breakthroughs leveraging its foundational model. The PRECISION Challenge aims to unlock breakthroughs in oncology at scale by providing access to data, funding, and expertise to multidisciplinary teams around the world who seek to make bold advances in cancer treatment and improve patient outcomes.
The PRECISION Challenge will provide selected participants with an unprecedented ecosystem of resources, combining direct financial funding with scientific and analytical infrastructure. Program recipients will gain structured access to Tempus' proprietary, de-identified data library—one of the world's largest repositories of clinical, molecular, and imaging data—alongside a suite of Tempus' foundation models, agentic tooling, and compute infrastructure in the Lens Workspaces environment, designed to accelerate biological discovery from multimodal real world data.
As part of the PRECISION Challenge, Tempus and a group of external advisors will identify specific clinical and technical challenges for the research community to address, focused on advancing precision medicine in oncology by leveraging Tempus' large multimodal foundation model.
The program will provide staged funding and compute resources tied to research milestones and demonstrated progress:
- Proof of Concept Grant: $25,000 in funding and an allocation for compute to support early-stage development and feasibility testing.
- "Level-Up" Grant: $75,000 in funding and an allocation for compute to support more advanced development, such as demonstrating clinical performance, achieving model lock, or validating reproducibility.
- Additional rounds of funding and advanced computing resources will be available to further advance selected projects, including support for validation studies and external publication.
"Oncology research is no longer bottlenecked solely by scientific hypotheses, but by immediate access to high-fidelity data and the massive computational power required to interpret it," said Ezra Cohen, MD, and Chief Medical Officer of Oncology at Tempus. "With the PRECISION Challenge, we are opening Tempus capabilities and allowing the broader research community to access the vast investments we have made in building our foundation model. We will embark on this effort collaboratively to address the fundamental questions in oncology that, before now, were impossible to address."
Tempus will announce the opening of applications for the inaugural cohort of the PRECISION Challenge in the coming months. Researchers and investigators are encouraged to apply.
About Tempus
Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With one of the world's largest libraries of multimodal data, and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, Tempus provides AI-enabled precision medicine solutions to physicians to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics. The goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as the company gathers more data. For more information, visit tempus.com.
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