apt install lucie --from-source : LUCIE, the Fully "Libre LLM" you can build, hack and trust !

Track: Artificial intelligence & Debian

Type: Long talk (45 minutes)

Room: Grand amphi

Time: Jul 18 (Fri): 09:30

Duration: 0:40

As AI becomes a core part of our digital infrastructure, the need for fully Free and auditable models is critical. LUCIE-7B is one of the first large language models trained entirely from scratch — with every component released under a libre license: model weights, training code, tokenizer, and even the full dataset.

https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenLLM-France/lucie-llm-67099ba7b992dee2c32b1f92 https://github.com/OpenLLM-France/Lucie-Training

This talk will show how LUCIE aligns perfectly with the Debian philosophy: transparency, reproducibility, community-driven development, and digital sovereignty. We’ll also discuss how LUCIE could integrate with Debian workflows, and invite the community to help build a fully libre AI stack — from inference on local hardware to distributed training setups.

Why it matters for Debian - 100% Libre: all assets released under Open Source licenses, including training data. - Reproducibility: training recipes and logs available for audit and replay. - modularity: LUCIE components can be packaged, extended, and improved by the Debian community. - sovereignty: a European-led alternative to opaque, proprietary AI systems.

We’ll explore how LUCIE fits naturally into Debian’s ethos of transparency, auditability and user freedom, and how you can help package, deploy, or even fine-tune it… the Debian way — from source to inference.

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