
CTO and Co-founder / Mistral AI
Timothée Lacroix is the CTO and Co-founder of Mistral AI, a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup established in April 2023. Prior to co-founding Mistral AI, he was a PhD student and Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research in Paris, specializing in link prediction and large language model optimization. He is recognized as one of the first AI billionaires in France.

CTO
PhD student
Research Engineer
Software Engineer Intern

Visiting undergraduate
Computer Science
Core technical and professional competencies in AI and large-scale systems.
Timothée Lacroix is the CTO and Co-founder of Mistral AI, a French AI startup, known for his background at Facebook AI Research and his recent billionaire status.
Before co-founding Mistral AI, he was a PhD student and Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research in Paris for approximately eight years (2015-2023).
He is recognized as one of the first AI billionaires in France, with a reported net worth of $1.1 billion.
He specializes in link prediction and large language model optimization, which he researched extensively at Facebook AI Research.
As of the latest data, he has 5.1K followers on LinkedIn and 4.1K followers on Twitter/X.
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Generative AI
Information Technology, Software Development, European Tech
Visionary, Technical Leader, Entrepreneurial, Data-Driven
AI Innovation, LLM Optimization, Scaling Technology, European AI
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