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Guillaume Lample

2 entries · February 2023 – June 2023

Guillaume Lample is a co-founder and chief scientist of Mistral AI, the Paris-based foundation-model company he established in 2023 with Arthur Mensch and Timothée Lacroix. He was previously a research scientist at Meta's FAIR lab in Paris, where he was among the authors of the original LLaMA paper.

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  1. Mistral AI raises a record European seed round

    Founders Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample had no product and no plans to ship one before 2024; investors backed the team alone.

    Money & business · Labs & people

  2. Meta releases LLaMA to researchers, and it leaks within a week

    Meta shared a competitive foundation model with approved researchers; the weights appeared on BitTorrent days later and an open ecosystem formed around them.

    Open weights & ecosystem · Models & capabilities