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ILLUIN Technology

Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for ILLUIN Technology.

Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference

model lab3 model listings0 token-price rows

Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
EU headquarters
Headquarters record
Rueil-Malmaison (Paris region)
Legal entity
SAS
Ownership
subsidiary of Seven2 (Apax Development Fund II took a majority stake in Dec 2025)
Founded
2017
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-08-22

Links

Official website

Open interactive profile

Evidence boundaries

Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. 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.

Model listings

  1. ColPalicatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    multimodal
    Parameters
    ~3B (ColPali/ColQwen2 variants)
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    multilingual documents
    Licence
    open (see model cards; MIT/Apache variants)
    Release
    2024-06
  2. CroissantLLMcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    1.3B
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    French-English bilingual
    Licence
    MIT
    Release
    2024-02
  3. GroUSEcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    French/English
    Licence
    open
    Release
    2024

Profile note

Punches far above its weight in open research: co-created ColPali (which reshaped visual document retrieval worldwide) and CroissantLLM (the reference truly-bilingual FR-EN small model), both with CentraleSupélec. Commercially it is an enterprise AI builder, now PE-owned, with no public pricing.

Record sources

  1. https://github.com/illuin-tech/colpali
  2. https://huggingface.co/illuin
  3. https://www.seven2.eu/en/2025/12/18/seven2-acquires-a-majority-stake-in-illuin-technology-french-leader-in-en…
  4. https://www.diabolocom.com/blog/croissantllm/
  5. https://www.illuin.tech/