Evidence-backed European AI register
GENCI / Jean Zay
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for GENCI / Jean Zay.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- public research body (société civile owned by the French State, CEA, CNRS, Inria, universities)
- Ownership
- state-owned
- Founded
- 2007
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
GENCI
Public research / national infrastructure entry; not a private headquarters determination.
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Profile note
The compute substrate under most of French open AI. Jean Zay (IDRIS/CNRS, operated for GENCI) trained BLOOM, Lucie and the CamemBERT line; its France 2030-funded H100 extension pushed peak performance from 36.85 to 125.9 petaflops, making it France's largest AI-dedicated supercomputer. Chronic oversubscription is the binding constraint on French academic model training.
Record sources
- https://www.genci.fr/en/news/genci-and-cnrs-choose-eviden-make-jean-zay-supercomputer-one-most-powerful-france
- https://oecd.ai/en/dashboards/policy-initiatives/jean-zay-supercomputer-extension
- https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/eviden-to-upgrade-frances-jean-zay-supercomputer-with-nvidia-h100-…
- https://www.genci.fr/