Meltwater AI Team Hosts Paris NLP Meetup

On January 8th, Meltwater’s French AI team hosted the Paris NLP meetup in the Paris office a highly regarded event known for featuring prominent speakers from organizations such as Meta, Mistral and Kuytai.

Over 80 attendees gathered to hear Alexandre Brasseur share Meltwater’s ongoing efforts and retrospective in building MIRA (Meltwater Information Retrieval Assistant). A special emphasis was placed on setting up and evaluating a scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) stack capable of processing billions of documents per day.

The slide’s to Alexandre’s presentation can be found here

Semantic search presentation by Alexandre Brasseur

In addition to Alexandre’s presentation, Léo Hunout and Kamel Guerda delivered a talk on the IDRIS supercomputer, Jean Zay, highlighting its critical role in powering advanced AI research. Their session underscored the value of high-performance computing resources for accelerating innovation, ultimately pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the NLP community.

After the talks, the meetup offered an excellent networking opportunity, bringing together researchers, developers, and enthusiasts to discuss the presentations, along with the latest trends and breakthroughs in natural language processing.

Networking session at the meetup