Timothée Lacroix

Timothée Lacroix is co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI, which he started in April 2023 with Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample. He leads Mistral's research and technical direction, including work on Le Chat and the Mistral and Mixtral model families. Before Mistral he was a PhD student and then Research Engineer at Meta AI FAIR, where he contributed to LLaMA and to training-stack optimization for very large language models. He met his co-founders at the École Polytechnique.