Harold Benoit

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"In the stillness of the night, as jobs hum quietly across GPUs, the mind finds a rare serenity, knowing the work carries on without you."


I'm currently a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI, working on pretraining multimodal models.

I have notes where I write down almost everything I learn, and a blog for more polished thoughts.

Nowadays, I tend to spend time thinking about compute efficiency, hardware-aware model design, and multimodality.

News/Fun stuff:

  • [June 2026] MAI-Thinking-1 tech report is out. Worked on the pretraining :)
  • [December 2025] Joined Microsoft AI.
  • [July 2025] Released the LFM2 models! I am one of the main contributors.
  • [March 2025] Controlled Training Data Generation with Diffusion Models accepted at TMLR 2025.
  • [June 2024] Implemented from scratch a protein structure diffusion model.
  • [April 2024] Finished 1st place in the LLM training hackathon.
  • [January 2024] Diversification methods paper accepted at ICLR 2024.


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