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Thibault Schueller

Thibault Schueller is a software engineer whose work spans game graphics, GPU performance and AI models. He completed Epitech's Programme Grande École in 2016 after starting at its Strasbourg campus. His early projects include a CHIP-8 emulator ported to Zig and experiments with using Zig to compile a C++ game engine. He joined Mistral AI as a Software Engineer in 2024 and co-authored papers on Magistral, Voxtral and Devstral in 2025. As of October 2026, he specializes in graphics programming and GPU performance.

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Timeline

  1. 2016

    Epitech's Programme Grande École

    He completes Epitech's Programme Grande École in the 2016 class after starting at its Strasbourg campus.

  2. 2021

    A Zig CHIP-8 emulator

    He publishes a Zig port of a CHIP-8 emulator in July 2021 after first porting an emulator to Rust.

  3. June 2022

    Zig for a C++ engine

    In June 2022, he explores using Zig as a replacement for Clang, GCC and MSVC in his C++ game engine.

  4. June 2024

    Joining Mistral AI

    In June 2024, he joins Mistral AI as a Software Engineer.

  5. June 2025

    Magistral's reasoning model

    He coauthors the June 2025 Magistral paper, which introduces Mistral AI's first reasoning model and a scalable reinforcement-learning pipeline.

  6. July 2025

    Voxtral's audio models

    In July 2025, he coauthors Voxtral Mini and Voxtral Small, multimodal audio chat models trained to understand spoken audio and text documents.

  7. August 2025

    Devstral for coding agents

    In August 2025, he coauthors a technical report introducing Devstral-Small, a lightweight open-source model for code agents.

  8. As of October 2026

    Graphics and GPU performance

    He specializes in graphics programming and GPU performance, and his work has shipped in several AAA games to millions of players.

Career

  1. From 2024Mistral AISoftware Engineer

Education

  1. 2016EpitechProgramme Grande École

From the biography.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Thibault Schueller. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Thibault Schueller. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  3. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Mistral AI. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  4. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Mistral AI. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Nos alumni boostent les entreprises du Next40 epitech.eu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Pixels May Jitter ryp.github.io. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Magistral arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Voxtral arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Ryp (Thibault Schueller) github.com. Checked 20 October 2026.