# Timothée Lacroix French AI researcher and entrepreneur. Co-founder and CTO of [[Mistral AI]]. Previously research scientist at Meta AI Research (FAIR) for over a decade (2012-2023), where he contributed to the LLaMA family of language models. Known for training a 176B parameter model using only 30% of typical compute through meticulous optimization. ## Education - École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), 2008-2012 - Master's at Paris-Saclay University - PhD at École des Ponts ## Career - **Meta AI Research (FAIR)** (2012-2023): Research scientist. Contributed to LLaMA. Pioneered compute-efficient training for large language models - **[[Mistral AI]]** (2023-present): Co-founded with [[Arthur Mensch]] and [[Guillaume Lample]]. CTO, leading research and technical direction ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Timothée Lacroix]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Timothée Lacroix]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Mistral AI]] - [[Arthur Mensch]] - [[Guillaume Lample]] ## References - Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/timothee-lacroix