Bruno Bellier, new Director General of École polytechnique

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Hong Wang, X 2010 and an École Polytechnique’s honorary doctorate recipient, is awarded the 2026 Fields Medal

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École Polytechnique Establishes an Institute of Mathematics and Fundamental Sciences

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Samsung Joins Mistral AI's Funding Round

Samsung Joins Mistral AI's Funding Round The French startup Mistral AI has announced a new €3 billion funding round led by Samsung Electronics, bringing its valuation to over €21 billion. Founded in 2023 by three researchers and entrepreneurs, including Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample

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Hugging Face Joins Nvidia: Two X2003s at the Heart of the Open AI Boom

Hugging Face Joins Nvidia: Two X2003s at the Heart of the Open AI Boom The American processor designer, Nvidia, has officially announced the acquisition of Hugging Face—co-founded in 2016 by three French entrepreneurs, including two École Polytechnique alumni, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, both from the Class of 2003

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More Resource-Efficient AI

More Resource-Efficient AI Vicky Kalogeiton, a researcher at the École Polytechnique’s Computer Science Laboratory (LIX*), has just received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The goal of her research project FLASH is to make generative image AI more

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