← Pierre-Carl Langlais

Media, Talks & Podcasts

International Press

Fortune — Quoted on OpenAI’s Stargate strategy. May 2025
VentureBeat — “Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models.” Apr 2025
TechCrunch — Quoted on AI peer review practices. Mar 2025
Euronews — “This French start-up just proved OpenAI wrong.” Apr 2024
Wired — “Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content.” Mar 2024
Nikkei Digital Governance — Mickey Mouse copyright & generative AI. Mar 2024
Wired — “Sex, Drugs, and AI Mickey Mouse.” Jan 2024

French & European Press

L’Usine Nouvelle — “Pleias, start-up française pour une IA éthique et frugale.” Sep 2025
L’Usine Nouvelle — Pleias on the Jean Zay supercomputer. May 2025
Franceinfo — On France’s AI ecosystem. 2025
Maddyness — Legal and open-source AI in France. Feb 2025
ActuIA — Pleias: open language models for ethical AI. Dec 2024
ICT Journal — Pleias 1.0 launch. Dec 2024
Global Venturing — Open-source AI startups taking on big developers. 2025
Next.ink — Wikimedia Enterprise & Pleias. Jan 2026
Next.ink — The BNF as a data reservoir for AI. Jun 2024
Next.ink — Common Corpus launch. Mar 2024

Podcasts & Video Interviews

GroundZero — “Model is the Product | Common Corpus, Mid-Training, Open Science.” 2h interview with Himanshu Dubey. Oct 2025
IA Pulse — Open models, DeepSeek, digital sovereignty. Feb 2025
Data Driven 101 (Episode #61) — Fine-tuning large language models. Jun 2024
Comptoir IA — Digital humanities and LLMs. 2023

Talks & Conferences — 2025–2026

“Open data flows: rethinking AI infrastructure after the synthetic turn” — Commons.AI / apidays, Paris, Dec. 2025.
Workshop on Open-Source Foundation Models — German-French Summit on Digital Sovereignty, Berlin, Nov. 2025. Organized by KI-Verband / Fraunhofer IAIS.
Colloque DGLFLF / OPALE — Ministère de la Culture, Paris, Nov. 2025. Presentation on the French Science Commons project.
“SYNTH: designing open synthetic environments with open data” — EPFL, Lausanne, Nov. 2025. Invited by Martin Jaggi.
“Collective Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence” — Wikimedia Roundtable, IMD Business School, Lausanne, Nov. 2025. Organized by Open Future and Wikimedia CH.
“Knowledge is Human” — Content Re-Use Summit, British Library, London, Oct. 2025. Organized by Wikimedia UK / Wikimedia Foundation.
“Open Environments with Open Data” — AI Alliance Meetup, Ekimetrics, Paris, Sep. 2025. With Anastasia Stasenko.
DraCor Summit — Berlin, Sep. 2025.
X-IA #26 — École Polytechnique, 2025.
Italian Tech Week — Turin, 2025.
Roundtable on Open-Source AI — ETH Zurich, Jun. 2025. Organized by ETH AI Ethics and Policy Network and AI Alliance.
ParanomAI — Geneva, Jun. 2025.
Jean Zay 4 Supercomputer Inauguration — GENCI / IDRIS, May 2025. Presented Pleias 1.0.
“Optimising AI for Sensitive Industries” — Open Data Institute, London, Mar. 2025. Keynote.
French Science Commons Launch — Académie des Sciences, Paris, 2025.

Talks & Conferences — 2024

“Entropy is all you need? The quest for best tokens and the new physics of LLMs” — CERN Data Science Seminar, Nov. 2024.
Table ronde France Alumni — Palais Farnèse, Rome, Oct. 2024. Organized by the Institut Français Italia.
“More than Open — Creating Ethical AI Datasets” — Datasets Convening, Amsterdam, Jun. 2024. Co-hosted by Mozilla and EleutherAI.
“AI and the Commons” — Open Future community call, Apr. 2024.