CNRS AI chat: Emmy

CNRS AI chat: Emmy#

When: Thursday 19 February
Organiser: Alexandre Boucaud

During this café we will talk about the use of Emmy, the MistralAI chatbot made for the CNRS agents called Emmy.

Information and access to Emmy

Head over to emmy.cnrs.fr with CNRS credentials (Janus).

Current status#

As of December 2025, Emmy is presented as the single authorized AI chat (as opposed to non-French-based technologies such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, etc.)

French university-based alternatives are allowed but

Questions emerging from the café#

General#

  1. Will there be an official presentation of the tool ?

The tool is an instance of Mistral Le Chat (version Pro). Apart from the online tutorials accessible at emmy.cnrs.fr no official tutorials are planned for now. For an introduction, see presentation from Thomas Vuillaume below.

  1. How long will the license be valid for ? Can we invest in this tool or is there a chance it will go away after 1 year ?

No clear answer so far because of the current pace of evolution of these tools but if adoption is massive, they will probably keep it

  1. It seems non-CNRS people cannot access Emmy (requires a Janus account). Is there a plan to open it to all members of the lab ? Or to be given a few extra licenses for non-CNRS members ?

The current CNRS position is to only pay for its employees. University employees should ask their University for such tools.

  1. Is this ok for personal use ?

Yes this is fine.

Specific usage / strategic#

  1. Is there a way to access agentic capabilities (devstral / Mistral Code / vibe) for development ? This is an important topic for which there is currently no answers and forbidding CNRS agents to use non-sovereign tools.

For now this is not part of the deal but I (Alexandre) will push for it at the IN2P3 level and we can hope to gain access to API usage.

  1. Peut-on payer pour une offre plus puissante

No clear answer for now

  1. Possibilité de faire des groupes / labos au sein du SSO ?

Pas possible dans l’outil actuel tel que présenté mais possibilité de partager une bibliothèque de document avec une liste de personnes du même SSO (adresse @cnrs.fr).

  1. Quelles sont les garanties de sécurité vis à vis des documents qu’on upload sur l’outil ?

Mistral garantit au CNRS une confidentialité des document et une absence d’utilisation pour des fins d’entraînement de leurs modèles

Extended presentation of Emmy from Thomas Vuillaume (LAPP)#

Also accessible at this link.