École Polytechnique
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Alexandre SablayrollesResearch Scientist · Mistral AIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Thibaut Lavril
Mistral AIAI Research Engineer
Lavril co-authored Meta's original LLaMA paper and helped build Mistral 7B, an openly released language model that matched or surpassed much larger systems on several tests. The work showed that careful model design could deliver strong performance with less computing power.
Career & education
Current roleMistral AI2023-presentAI Research Engineer
Mistral AI2023-presentPreviously
Meta2019-2023Research Engineer
Meta2019-2023Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations82,308As of Oct 20, '26
citations+11,864Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
With Hugo Touvron, Louis Martin, Kevin Stone, Peter Albert, Amjad Almahairi, Yasmine Babaei, Nikolay Bashlykov and others ·Presented Llama 2 and its chat models, including training methods and capability evaluations.
Mistral 7B
With Albert Q. Jiang, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Arthur Mensch, Chris Bamford, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Diego de las Casas, Florian Bressand and others ·Mistral 7B demonstrated strong language-model performance relative to larger models.
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