Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 16/07/2025✊ Transformers... Assemble! Introducing ♊ Ettin Suite, a SoTA open recipe to outperform existing Generative & Retrieval Models. Developed by Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with LightOn, Ettin is the first-ever SoTA suite of paired encoder & decoder models. 171
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 05/06/2025From RAG to riches, LightOn introduces FastPlaid, a new milestone for late-interaction architectures! 👏 Congratulations to @raphaelsty.bsky.social, ML Engineer at LightOn, on the release of FastPlaid, a high-performance engine for multi-vector search. 171
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Another week, another SOTA. This time in Reasoning at @lightonai.bsky.social ! 020
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 30/04/2025💫 LightOn releases GTE-ModernColBERT, the first State-of-the-Art late-interaction model trained on PyLate! 171
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 23/04/2025✨ Your know-how is your edge, AI is made to enhance it on your terms! 👀 Would you let AI access data you wouldn’t share with your team? 🛡️Internal governance remains paramount! This isn’t just smart permissions, it’s safer intelligence — activated 131
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🎭 Your know-how comes in many forms, scattered across countless formats. 💡 What if the insight you seek - hidden in PDFs, PPTXs, XLSXs, PNGs, and JPEGs - was just one question away? This isn’t just multimodal search, it’s enterprise intelligence — activated 031
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Join us at #MWC25 in Barcelona next week! Come discover LightOn latest innovations on Gcore 📌 Booth 6D44 in Hall 6 To know more 👉 lighton.ai/contactus 031
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Trying to make sense of visual cues in your company documents so that you can have a richer conversation with them? Introducing visual RAG un Paradigm so that you can make the best of your documents 🚀 in a secure and private way. At @lightonai.bsky.social we're shipping fast and often 🚢 140
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 26/02/2025✨ Introducing the first ever Visual RAG pipeline! Paradigm now offers a whole pipeline working directly on your visual documents as you see them, preventing any loss of information and allowing you to query non-textual elements! 162
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Meet us in Cannes on HPE & Nvidia pavilion at #WAICF and experience how simple it is to generate immediate #GenAI revenue with Paradigm: 131
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 22/01/2025🚀Super proud of the team @lightonai.bsky.social for this new release of Paradigm, the GenAI platform for the Enterprise. Luminous Lynx marks a major leap forward, integrating advanced agentic 🤖 behavior and cutting-edge tools 🔨✂️ Wanna more ⬇️ lighton.ai/luminous-lynxlighton.aiDiscover Luminous Lynx - LightOnLuminous Lynx marks a major leap forward, integrating advanced agentic behavior and cutting-edge tools. With features like autonomous tool selection, expanded context handling, and a reimagined interf... 050
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Yes! Will 6G be the Mellanox of Mobile Generative AI? medium.com/@debbahme/wi...medium.comWill 6G be the Mellanox of Mobile Generative AI?Just as NVIDIA’s acquisition of Mellanox revolutionized high-performance computing by solving the latency and bandwidth issues of AI… 040
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 14/01/2025ModernBERT-embed-large is released under Apache 2.0 and is available on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/lightonai/mo... Congrats to @nohtow.bsky.social for this great work!huggingface.colightonai/modernbert-embed-large · Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 0102
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 14/01/2025LightOn releases ModernBERT-embed-large model, a larger and more proficient iteration of ModernBERT-embed-base! This competitive fine-tuned variant aims at allowing everyone to play with ModernBERT, becoming an out-of-the-box tool and a starting point for fine-tuning! huggingface.co/lightonai/mo...huggingface.colightonai/modernbert-embed-large · Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 192
Reposted by Igor CarronAntoine Chaffin @nohtow.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/modernb... Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2412.13663 With @lightonai.bsky.social folks, we collaborated with @answerai.bsky.social (and friends!) to leverage the advances from recent years of work on LLMs (architecture and training) and apply them to a BERT-style modelhuggingface.coFinally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERTWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 143
Reposted by Igor CarronAntoine Chaffin @nohtow.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I am thrilled to announce the release of ModernBERT, the long-awaited BERT replacement! There might be a few LLM releases per week, but there is only one drop-in replacement that brings Pareto improvements over the 6 years old BERT while going at lightspeed 3383
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Thanks Jeremy @howard.fm . Our username on Bluesky is @lightonai.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 16/12/2024IA générative en entreprise : entre acquérir une solution clé en main et construire en interne, faut-il choisir ? Laurent Daudet, co-fondateur et CEO de LightOn, explore ce dilemme et ses implications : www.latribune.fr/opinions/tri... #IA #Innovation #Stratégie #Technologielatribune.frAcheter ou construire sa plateforme d'IA, le dilemme des entreprisesOPINION. Avec l’explosion de l’IA générative, les entreprises se retrouvent face à un dilemme stratégique majeur : doivent-elles construire en interne leur propre plateforme d’IA (build) ou acheter un... 094
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 10/12/2024🚀 LightOn: A publicly traded company on Euronext Growth Two weeks ago, LightOn became the first publicly traded Generative AI company in Europe (ALTAI on Euronext Growth Paris). 👉 Learn more: www.lighton.ai/lighton-blog...lighton.aiLightOn Goes Public: A Key Step for European AI - LightOnLightOn has become the first publicly traded GenAI company with a successful listing on Euronext Growth Paris. The IPO marks a significant step for LightOn to enable Enterprise Generative AI in Europ... 042
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 09/12/2024An added advantage is that, since ArabicWeb is not based on Common Crawl, it can be used together with FineWeb-2 to increase data quantity and diversity Read more on ArabicWeb24: www.lighton.ai/lighton-blog...lighton.aiArabicWeb24: Creating a high quality Arabic Web-only pre-training dataset - LightOn 032
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The FineWeb-2 study evaluated the quality of various pre-training datasets for the Arabic language. It's great to see that our work on ArabicWeb is competitive with the state of the art. 131
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Paradigm at Edge with Gcore @lightonai.bsky.social and Gcore announce teaming up to deliver seamless #GenAI for Enterprise while overcoming geographical constraints. Read the press release: www.lighton.ai/lighton-blog... 021
Reposted by Igor CarronLightOn @lightonai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024🔔 Journée historique pour LightOn Ce matin à 9h, @igorcarron.bsky.social et @ldaudet.bsky.social, co-fondateurs de LightOn ont fait sonner la cloche d’Euronext, officialisant la première entrée en bourse d’une entreprise d’IA générative en Europe ! #IPO #GenAi #AI #LightOn 092
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024who's starting a starter pack featuring "machine learners whose name do not include an S"? 000
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 18/11/2024For those of you interested in how LLMs are going to change entire industries, don't hesitate to follow LightOn: bsky.app/profile/ligh...bsky.app 030
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 18/11/2024do when is @comedialkb.bsky.social starting a starter pack in light, optics, diffusive media, etc....? 160
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 17/11/2024This type of thing happens all the time when training foundation models. It is neither catastrophic nor major. which brings us to the most important question: why would someone make a big deal out of it? 120
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Personne ne fait la connection directe entre la réforme Blanquer soit la mise en option des maths en première et ce qui arrive exactement 4 ans après au concours de Polytechnique qui se trouve être un concours que l'on passe 4 ans après. www.lesechos.fr/politique-so...lesechos.fr 121
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Out of the people mentioned/sourced on Nuit Blanche: Tao: Fields Donoho: Gauss, MacArthur Genius Candès: MacArthur Genius Zdeborova: Irène Joliot Curie, Gibbs lectureship of AMS Parisi: Nobel Talagrand: Abel Widgerson: Turing LeCun: Turing Hinton: Turing and Nobel who am I missing? 040
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 16/11/2024@simonsfoundation.org please get cranking on bluesky! 030
Igor Carron @igorcarron.bsky.social · 10/11/2024J'aime bien la première page de La Tribune de Samedi. Un drapeau américain 🇺🇸, un drapeau chinois 🇨🇳 et la seule mention de l'Europe 🇪🇺et de la France 🇫🇷 se fait par l'intermédiaire de LightOn 053