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Guillaume Lample
Guillaume Lample's file: unsupervised translation, Meta AI, LLaMA, and the scientist who left one giant American lab to co-found Europe's Mistral AI.
Lample came out of École Polytechnique and machine-translation research, became one of Meta AI's language-model researchers and a contributor to LLaMA, then left to co-found Mistral and run its science program from Paris.
HOW THE HELL DID GUILLAUME LAMPLE GET HERE?
2011
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE PUTS HIM ON THE MATH TRACK
Lample studied at École Polytechnique before moving into natural-language processing and deep-learning research.
RECEIPTS: École Polytechniquereported
Apr 30, 2018
HE TEACHES TRANSLATION WITHOUT PARALLEL TEXT
Lample and collaborators published influential work showing neural machine translation could be trained using monolingual corpora without paired translations.
RECEIPTS: Meta AIfirst-party
2018
THE LANGUAGE RESEARCH MOVES INSIDE META
Lample became a researcher at Facebook AI Research, continuing work on multilingual and large-scale language models.
RECEIPTS: École Polytechniquereported
2023
HE HELPS BUILD LLAMA
École Polytechnique identifies Lample as one of the creators of Meta's LLaMA model family before his departure to start Mistral.
RECEIPTS: École Polytechniquereported
Apr 2023
HE LEAVES META TO CO-FOUND MISTRAL
Lample co-founded Mistral AI and became its chief science officer, putting his research background behind a new European frontier-model lab.
RECEIPTS: Mistral AIfirst-party
Feb 26, 2024
MISTRAL LARGE PUTS THE NEW LAB IN THE FRONTIER CONVERSATION
Mistral released Mistral Large as the company expanded its model portfolio and enterprise ambitions.
RECEIPTS: Mistral AIfirst-party
2026
THE SCIENCE OPERATION EXPANDS INTO PHYSICAL INDUSTRY
Mistral expanded its science organization into engineering and Physics AI through the acquisition of Emmi, with Lample describing the move as part of a broader industrial-AI stack.
RECEIPTS: Mistral AIfirst-party