Nicolas Chapados
nicolaschapados.bsky.social
Nicolas Chapados
@nicolaschapados.bsky.social
Passionate about AI and its impact on society • VP, Research, ServiceNow • Associate industrial member, Mila • Adjunct professor, Polytechnique Montréal • Co-Founder, Imagia & Element AI
A new open LLM pushing the boundary of performance vs efficiency, from ServiceNow! 💪🏼✨ 🚀
🚨 SLAM Labs presents Apriel-5B! And it lands right in the green zone 🚨
Speed ⚡ + Accuracy 📈 + Efficiency 💸
This model punches above its weight, beating bigger LLMs while training on a fraction of the compute.
Built with Fast-LLM, our in-house training stack.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reposted by Nicolas Chapados
We’re really excited to release this large collaborative work for unifying web agent benchmarks under the same roof.

In this TMLR paper, we dive in-depth into #BrowserGym and #AgentLab. We also present some unexpected performances from Claude 3.5-Sonnet
December 12, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Chapados
🎉 Excited to introduce BigDocs!
An open, transparent multimodal dataset designed for:
📄 Documents
🌐 Web content
🖥️ GUI understanding
👨‍💻 Code generation from images
We’re also launching BigDocs-Bench:
➡️ Document, Web, GUI Visual reasoning
➡️ Converting images into JSON, Markdown, LaTeX, SVG, and more!
December 10, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Chapados
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We are thrilled to release #AgentLab, a new open-source package for developing and evaluating web agents. This builds on the new #BrowserGym package which supports 10 different benchmarks, including #WebArena.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Chapados
Job opening in experimental particle physics in Montréal. Seems to be a broad search (ATLAS - astrophysics - Dark Matter). Several members of that group also interact with MILA
inspirehep.net/jobs/2841793
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM