Med-Asagi

A 14.2B Japanese medical VLM with chain-of-thought reasoning, built on the Asagi line and trained with ~12M translated medical examples; the SFT variant approaches GPT-5 on CT and X-ray VQA. A scientific FM with transfer evidence from Tatsuya Harada's RCAST/MIL group with RIKEN AIP (dual affiliation), Jichi Medical University, the National Cancer Center, and NII. Beta checkpoint released CC-BY-SA-4.0, announced via RCAST press 2026-03.