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L’Afnic choisit LightOn pour déployer une IA générative souveraine et sécurisée
Paris, le 30 Septembre 2025 - LightOn, entreprise française et acteur européen de premier plan dans le domaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative pour les entreprises et le secteur public, annonce la signature d’un contrat d’un an avec l’Afnic (Association française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération), office d’enregistrement du « .fr » (près de 4,3 millions de noms de domaine), de plusieurs extensions ultramarines françaises et de noms de domaine génériques, ainsi qu’acteur clé de la gouvernance de l’Internet en France.



LightOn at #NeurIPS2019
Laurent Daudet, (LightOn CTO and Co-founder), Iacopo Poli (Lead ML at LightOn) and Florent Krzakala (consultant at LightOn and Co-founder), are currently at #NeurIPS2019 in Vancouver. One poster will feature some work performed with LightOn’s processing Unit and will be presented by Laurent or Iacopo.
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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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