Event

An evening to decode AI through the news

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Paris LLP

Thursday, December 4th 2025, 6:30 p.m.

Three experts and practitioners in artificial intelligence—Clément Bénesse, Laurent Daudet, and Jordan Ricker—offered a rich exchange dedicated to deciphering the major and current challenges of generative AI. The meeting concluded with a convivial gathering, conducive to discussions and encounters between members, partners, and fellow travelers of Renaissance Numérique.

Last Thursday, following the publication of our latest report, “Developing AI literacy for an inclusive and empowering society”, Renaissance Numérique organized an evening event with its members, partners, and collaborators to discuss the realities and prospects of generative AI. After a few words about the report, which is the result of a collective effort (31 members involved, 26 hearings, interim publications and conferences, 128 pages, 170 references, 6 chapters, and 11 recommendations), Jean-François Lucas, our Executive Director, led a fascinating discussion with our three guests:

  • Clément Bénesse, Senior AI Researcher at Opsci.ai
  • Laurent Daudet, University professor and co-founder of Light-On
  • Jordan Ricker, Director of Operations at Opsci.ai

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Thanks to their expertise in both the theory and practice of artificial intelligence, we were able to decipher the challenges, advances, and current limitations of generative AI around five major news stories:

  1. The evolution of different generative AI paradigms: LLM, World Models, Frontier Models, etc., as illustrated by Yann LeCun’s upcoming departure from Meta. (Paid content).
  2. The development of large language models versus specialized models, as illustrated by Mistral AI’s recent announcement of its Ministral models.
  3. Understanding AI black boxes; see OpenAI’s communication on a “sparse network” on this subject. (Paid).
  4. An update on the use of AI for cyberattacks, following the report published last November by Anthropic.
  5. Insight into European digital sovereignty, in the context of the recent Franco-German summit.

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The evening continued in a warm and friendly atmosphere with all the guests: members, partners, long-time companions, future members… So many wonderful encounters and a desire to work together with the same positive energy that characterizes our think tank, always with the desire to meet, analyze, and compare ideas with one another in order to inform choices for a responsible digital society.

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