Co-founder, Mistral AI

Guillaume Lample's role at Mistral AI

Guillaume Lample is a co-founder and the Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, the Paris company founded in 2023.

Guillaume Lample studied at École polytechnique, where he met Arthur Mensch and Timothée Lacroix. The three were classmates.

Before Mistral AI, Lample and Lacroix had been building large models at Meta. Mensch brought the three together to start a new company in Paris.

Mistral AI SAS was incorporated on 28 April 2023. Its first major release, the open-weight Mistral 7B model, came in September 2023. Mixtral 8x7B followed in December 2023.

Lample is the company's Chief Scientist, the research lead among the three founders. Arthur Mensch is CEO and Timothée Lacroix is CTO.

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Where did Guillaume Lample study?

Guillaume Lample studied at École polytechnique, where he met his future co-founders Arthur Mensch and Timothée Lacroix.

What is Guillaume Lample's role at Mistral AI?

Guillaume Lample is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI. He founded the company with Arthur Mensch and Timothée Lacroix.

How did Guillaume Lample start Mistral AI?

Lample had been building large models at Meta before Mistral AI was incorporated on 28 April 2023. He started the company with two old classmates from École polytechnique.