Meta
Arthur MenschCo-founder and CEO · Mistral AIResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Timothée Lacroix
Mistral AICo-founder and CTO
Lacroix co-authored the original LLaMA paper at Meta, helping launch the wave of capable downloadable language models. His work connects model design with the infrastructure needed to train and deploy language models efficiently.
Career & education
Current role
Co-founder and CTO
Previously
Work 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.
citations35,961As of Jun 15, '26
citations+11,741Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
Selected contributions
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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Reviewed August 8, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.
