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LightOn, Edarat Group, and NVIDIA collaborate with Orange Business to launch Live Intelligence in the Gulf region
The collaboration with LightOn, Edarat Group, and NVIDIA positions the GCC as a global hub for sovereign AI, driving digital transformation, regional resilience, and economic growth at scale.
Agentic AI vs. Rules-Based Automation: How AI Is Reshaping Finance
Discover why legacy automation falls short in finance, and how agentic AI brings context, adaptability, and secure intelligence to the frontlines.
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LightOn Launches Its Sovereign and Secure Generative AI Offering for Higher Education in Partnership with ENS Paris-Saclay
LightOn, a leading European provider of generative AI for enterprises and the public sector, is supporting the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris-Saclay) in deploying its Paradigm platform within a sovereign French cloud environment. This collaboration marks the launch of Paradigm Edu, LightOn’s new offering tailored to the needs of higher education and research institutions. With this initiative, ENS Paris-Saclay aims to accelerate the exploration and adoption of concrete generative AI use cases across its administrative functions, while ensuring data security and confidentiality. The project aligns with national regulatory frameworks and meets the strict security requirements of public institutions.
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Introducing Ettin Suite: the SoTA open recipe to outperform existing Generative & Retrieval Models
Introducing Ettin, the first ever SOTA suite of paired encoder & decoder models, developed by Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with LightOn.
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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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