SCRIBE

SCRIBE is a large-scale national initiative aimed at creating powerful generative AI that serves the French industry. The project addresses a critical need: developing sovereign AI models that are performant, secure, and tailored to the French business language and to the operational realities of key economic sectors such as finance, education, and digital trust.
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The project pursues three main objectives: developing sovereign foundation models, ensuring performance across economic, security, and evaluation dimensions, and building French sectoral communities around AI.

LightOn brings deep expertise in large language models and scalable AI deployment to the SCRIBE consortium. We enable organisations to deploy AI at scale while maintaining full data confidentiality and strategic independence. Within SCRIBE, LightOn contributes its proven capabilities in model training, fine-tuning, and industrialisation to help deliver AI solutions that meet the highest standards of performance, sovereignty, and trust for French industry.

The project is organised into four complementary work packages:
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Foundation Models: Training high-performance multimodal models adapted to the French language, with optimised architecture and reduced training costs.
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Sector-Specific Models and Agents: Creating specialised models and modular multi-agent systems aligned with industry needs.
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Security and Evaluation: Benchmarking model performance with French-language sectoral evaluations, red-teaming, and dedicated audit tools.
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Data and Commons: Building a sovereign library of sectoral data and open-source tools, made available on Hugging Face and GENCI infrastructure.