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Afnic chooses LightOn to Deploy Sovereign and Secure Generative AI
Paris, September 30, 2025 - LightOn, a French leading European player in the field of generative artificial intelligence for enterprises and the public sector, announces the signing of a one-year contract with Afnic (Association française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération), the registry for ".fr" (nearly 4.3 million domain names), several French overseas extensions and generic domain names, as well as a key player in Internet governance in France.
PyLate-rs: a lightweight tool to compute lightning-fast embeddings
PyLate-rs is a high-performance inference engine for PyLate models, meticulously crafted in Rust for optimal speed and efficiency.
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Sodern, a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, Selects LightOn to Industrialize Generative AI Within a Secure Framework
In Paris, on June 19, 2025, Lighton, a leading European provider of enterprise-grade generative AI for the public and private sectors, introduced secure artificial intelligence to the core of Sodern’s operations. In response to burgeoning demands for sovereignty and performance, Sodern has made the shrewd decision to deploy Paradigm, LightOn’s generative AI platform, across its organization. The result: the genesis of a deep transformation of its processes and operations, enhancing productivity while maintaining the highest standards of security.
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Announcing BioClinical ModernBERT: a new SOTA encoder model for Medical NLP
The recent release of ModernBERT by LightOn and AnswerAI aims at providing the best base model that can be then used in different industry verticals. Today, Thomas Sounack from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University, LightOn, MIT, McGill University, Albany Medical College and Microsoft Research, used this capability and trained a new State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) medical encoder named BioClinical ModernBERT.
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LightOn Unlocks Agentic RAG with new SOTA Model Reason-ModernColBERT
After the recent release of GTE-ModernColBERT exhibiting state-of-the-art results on long-context retrieval, LightOn announces a major leap forward in AI-driven knowledge discovery: Reason-ModernColBERT, an open-source multi-vector model purpose-built for Deep Research applications.
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LightOn Releases GTE-ModernColBERT, First State-of-the-Art Late-Interaction Model Trained on PyLate!
LightOn is proud to announce the release of GTE-ModernColBERT, our new state-of-the-art, open-source, multi-vector retrieval model. By leveraging ModernBERT architecture and our innovative PyLate library, we've created a solution that sets a new milestone in the field and addresses the complex challenges of modern enterprise information retrieval.
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LightOn and BearingPoint sign a partnership to accelerate public sector transformation through sovereign generative AI.
LightOn, a leading European player in generative AI, and BearingPoint, an independent, European leader in management and technology consulting, announce a strategic partnership to support public organizations in adopting generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), while addressing their specific sovereignty requirements (security, infrastructure and data control, technology ownership).
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LBP AM chooses LightOn to deploy its sovereign and secure Generative AI solution
LightOn, a leading European player in generative AI for businesses and the public sector, and LBP AM, a prominent European multi-specialist in conviction management, solutions, and sustainable finance, announce their partnership to deploy the Paradigm generative AI platform across all teams.
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LightOn appoints Cécile Givron as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Press release - LightOn, a leading European player in generative AI for businesses, announces the appointment of Cécile Givron as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer.
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LightOn Integrates “Visual RAG” into Its Platform: A World First for Large-Scale Image and Document Analysis
LightOn announces the integration of "Visual RAG" into its platform. This advancement marks a world first by enabling users to leverage and interact with documents that combine text, images, graphs, and diagrams, thanks to an AI capable of simultaneously analyzing these different sources of information.
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