# Arthur Mensch
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French AI researcher and entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO of [[Mistral AI]]. Previously worked at Google DeepMind on large language models, multimodal systems, and retrieval-augmented architectures. Contributed to Flamingo and Gemini. TIME100 innovators (2024).
## Education
- École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris
- Master's in Mathematics, Vision, Learning at Université Paris-Saclay
- PhD at Inria / NeuroSpin (CEA, Saclay), 2015-2018, on predictive models and stochastic optimization for fMRI analysis
## Career
- **Google DeepMind Paris** (2020-2023): Worked on LLMs, multimodal systems (Flamingo, Gemini), and retrieval-augmented generation
- **[[Mistral AI]]** (2023-present): Co-founded with [[Guillaume Lample]] and [[Timothée Lacroix]]. CEO
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## Related
- [[Mistral AI]]
- [[Guillaume Lample]]
- [[Timothée Lacroix]]
## References
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Mensch
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-mensch/