Co-founder & Chief Scientist of Mistral AI · LLaMA creatorCo-founder & Chief Scientist of Mistral AI · LLaMA creator
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French AI researcher who met co-founders Arthur Mensch and Timothee Lacroix while studying at Ecole Polytechnique. Researcher at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Paris from 2016 to 2023,defending a thesis on Unsupervised Machine Translation in 2019. At FAIR he produced work on unsupervised machine translation (EMNLP 2018 Best Paper) and cross-lingual pretraining (XLM),then led the creation of Meta's LLaMA family of open large language models unveiled in February 2023. In April 2023 he co-founded Mistral AI,where he serves as Chief Scientist. Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung in Sep 2026 at a post-money above €21B.
French AI researcher who met co-founders Arthur Mensch and Timothee Lacroix while studying at Ecole Polytechnique. Researcher at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Paris from 2016 to 2023,defending a thesis on Unsupervised Machine Translation in 2019. At FAIR he produced work on unsupervised machine translation (EMNLP 2018 Best Paper) and cross-lingual pretraining (XLM),then led the creation of Meta's LLaMA family of open large language models unveiled in February 2023. In April 2023 he co-founded Mistral AI,where he serves as Chief Scientist. Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung in Sep 2026 at a post-money above €21B.