Researcher

Teven Le Scao

Also known as Teven Scao

Teven Le Scao is a research engineer on reasoning models at Mistral AI. He helped create BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model, while working at Hugging Face. He was one of the authors of Mistral 7B, and a paper he co-authored, Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models, was an outstanding main track runner-up at NeurIPS 2023. His PhD defense at LORIA was scheduled for December 2023. In June 2025 he was among the Mistral-AI authors of Magistral, a reasoning model.

Works
35
Citations
10,372
h-index
12

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2022

    Research engineer at Hugging Face

    In 2022 he is a research engineer at Hugging Face in Paris, where he helps create the BLOOM language model.

  2. November 2022

    The BLOOM open language model

    He is listed first among the BigScience Workshop authors of BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model posted to arXiv in November 2022.

  3. October 2023

    Co-author of Mistral 7B

    He is one of the authors of Mistral 7B, a language model posted to arXiv in October 2023.

  4. 2023

    A NeurIPS runner-up paper

    He co-authors Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models, which NeurIPS 2023 lists as an outstanding main track runner-up.

  5. December 2023

    A PhD on multilingual scaling

    His PhD defense at LORIA, on scaling multilingual language models under constrained data, is scheduled for December 2023.

  6. Since 2024

    Reasoning models at Mistral AI

    He is a research engineer on reasoning models at Mistral AI, and he is among the Mistral-AI authors of Magistral, a reasoning model posted to arXiv in June 2025.

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  1. Teven Le Scao | alphaXiv alphaxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. [2211.05100] BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. [2310.06825] Mistral 7B arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. #NeurIPS2023 outstanding papers - AIhub aihub.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. PhD Defense: Teven Le Scao (Synalp) loria.fr. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. [2506.10910] Magistral arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.