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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.



LightOn’s Third Research Workshop
At LightOn, we usually define ourselves as a hardware company that does Machine Learning or a Machine Learning company that does hardware. it depends on who we are talking to. Sometimes we may even mention that we are using light as a means of performing computations of interest to high dimensional Machine Learning.
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Shedding Light on the “Grand Débat”
This article is LightOn’s AI Research (LAIR) first contribution focused on applying LightOn’s Optical Processing Unit (OPU) hardware to generic large-scale Machine Learning tasks. Today we tackle the recently released public dataset of a nation-wide public debate and our first trial in using LightOn’s OPU for a Natural Language Processing task.
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The Hardware Lottery: the cost of straying off the beaten path
The 9th LightOn AI Meetup was awesome! This time, we had Sara Hooker, Research Scholar at Google Brain, talking about The Hardware Lottery.
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Slash the training cost of your models with random learning signals and without feedback
At LightOn, we regularly organize meetups to gather ML researchers and engineers around topics of interest. Our meetups happen online in order to keep our attendees safe until further notice!
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