PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Baudouin De Monicault

Baudouin De Monicault is an AI researcher whose work spans multimodal models, reasoning, coding agents, speech, robotics, and safety. He entered École Polytechnique in 2020 through its MP track in physics and engineering sciences. He co-authored Pixtral 12B, Magistral, Devstral-Small, Ministral 3, and Voxtral Realtime, and contributed to Voxtral TTS. His 2026 work includes a vision-language model for robot navigation and a multimodal classifier for content moderation.

Works
8
Citations
9
h-index
2

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2020

    Admission to École Polytechnique

    He enters École Polytechnique in 2020 through the MP track in physics and engineering sciences.

  2. October 2024

    Pixtral 12B

    In October 2024, he co-authors Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal language model trained to understand natural images and documents.

  3. June 2025

    Mistral's first reasoning model

    In June 2025, he co-authors Magistral, which Mistral presents as its first reasoning model with a scalable reinforcement-learning pipeline.

  4. August 2025

    Devstral for coding agents

    He co-authors Devstral-Small in August 2025, an open-source model for code agents.

  5. January 2026

    Ministral 3

    In January 2026, he co-authors Ministral 3, a family of parameter-efficient dense language models for applications with limited compute and memory.

  6. February 2026–March 2026

    Streaming speech models

    In February 2026, he co-authors Voxtral Realtime, a natively streaming speech-recognition model with sub-second latency. In March 2026, he contributes to Voxtral TTS, an expressive multilingual text-to-speech model.

  7. As of October 2026

    AI research in robotics and safety

    He is an AI researcher whose 2026 work includes Robostral Navigate, an 8B vision-language model that predicts waypoints from monocular images, and Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier.

Most-cited works

  1. Ministral 32026 · 4 citationsWith Abhinav Rastogi, Alexander H. Liu, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Amélie Héliou, Andy Ehrenberg and Andy Lo
  2. Magistral2025 · 3 citationsWith Alexander H. Liu, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Amélie Héliou, Andy Ehrenberg, Baptiste Bout and Chris Bamford
  3. Robostral Navigate2026 · 0 citationsWith Alexandre Sablayrolles, Amélie Héliou, Baptiste Bout, Chris Bamford and Diego de las Casas
  4. Shieldstral2026 · 0 citationsWith Alexandre Sablayrolles, Amélie Héliou, Anmol Agarwal, Baptiste Bout, Chris Bamford and Diego de las Casas
  5. Voxtral2025 · 0 citationsWith Alexander H. Liu, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Amélie Héliou, Andy Ehrenberg, Baptiste Bout and Chris Bamford

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes École Polytechnique. We estimate how 13,335 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes École Polytechnique. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes École Polytechnique. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.

Sources and credits

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  1. Baudouin De Monicault - JORFSearch jorfsearch.steinertriples.ch. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Pixtral 12B arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. mistralai/Pixtral-12B-2409 · Hugging Face huggingface.co. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Magistral arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Ministral 3 arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. Voxtral Realtime arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  8. Voxtral TTS arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  9. Robostral Navigate arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  10. Shieldstral arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.