As we do every quarter, Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ details our exciting achievements for Q1 2024!

Full shareholder letter here:
alan.com/en/blog/discov…

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is out. It significantly outperforms existing open models, and only uses 39B active parameters (making it significantly faster than 70B models during inference). 1/n

Casually dropping this. France is the place to do AI!

Alan:
Counterstrike CEO
EU4 CTO

Clarifying a couple of things since we’re reading creative interpretations of our latest announcements:
- We’re still committed to leading open-weight models! We ask for a little patience, 1.5k H100s only got us that far.
- We have a reselling agreement with Microsoft, that we’re…

So excited by the team releasing Mistral Large and LeChat!

We are looking for Founders (past or present) to lead product areas at Alan! We have many successful ex-entrepreneurs that are having a blast building the future of health/prevention/insurance/AI like the IN-CRE-DI-BLE Bruno!

What we are looking for:
• Launched a…

Very happy to share this piece on moving away from seeing AI as a Stupor Mundi towards a Salvator Mundi where we can leverage artificial intelligence pragmatically to solve concrete issues.

Loved collaborating with Bertrand Badré to co-sign it.

Je viens de verser une larme d'émotion.

On a déchiffré des textes inédits sur les papyrus d'Herculanum.

Ces textes seraient de Phylodème, précepteur de Virgile.

Les miracles de la technologie qui permet parfois de remonter le temps...
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J’étais ravi d’avoir pu participer à une table ronde avec Paul Midy et GRASS pour discuter de la place d’une IA à la française.
Voici le résumé :

I think people are still sleeping on how much Mistral AI (and the first mixtral model) have changed the technology landscape. 50% of AI startups/scaleups I meet are building on it

It's incredible how AI is changing the world we live in.
Yesterday, I wondered about showing the tenure of Alaners above a certain level for our board.

In the past, I would have searched a bit, then probably asked someone on the team for the information.

Thanks to what we've…

Vico’s “Verum ipsum factum”

Même si c’est anachronique, Vautrin à la Santé, ça fait sourire ce lecteur de Balzac

Now that's a Netflix show I could watch

IA : innovons avant de réguler ! 

C'est la vision que nous portons avec la France. Et c’est l’ambition que j’ai tenue à défendre au Club Innovation de l'Institut Choiseul.

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