Each year, CEA-List publishes its scientific activity report, highlighting the major technological advances made by our institute. These reports showcase our scientific work, strategic partnerships, and innovations that benefit industry. They demonstrate our ongoing commitment to transform research into tangible solutions that enhance industrial competitiveness and provide a comprehensive overview of our achievements and ambitions for the future.
2025 was a year of excellence and transformation for CEA-List, marked by significant recognition amid rapid technological advancements: generative AI, Physical AI, quantum computing… In particular, we launched the second phase of our “Reveal” strategy by initiating four major technology programs focused on world models for intelligent robotics, the orchestration of distributed agent-based AI, a decentralized platform for LLM specialization training, and multimodal instrumentation for control. Our advances, which have been patented and published in A-rank journals, are based on foundational projects (the new programs on high-performance computing components CAMELIA, PHOENIX, and EDT) and a strengthened commitment to the CEA (ASIC) and Inria (Numérique) National Program Agencies.
Discover the breadth of our scientific work and our flagship results from projects at the forefront of innovation in our 2025 Scientific Report!
In 2024, CEA-List made significant advances. In the field of artificial intelligence, it launched the AIDGE open-source software platform for embedded AI and made significant progress in generative AI, positioning itself as a leader thanks to its first-place finish in the EvalLLM 2024 challenge, organized by the French Ministerial Agency for AI and Defense and collaboration with Thales.
In the quantum field, two major programs have been launched: Q-Loop and the Maison du Quantique Île-de-France. CEA-List has also set up an Intelligent Robotics capability (R2I) and strengthened its European dynamics with projects such as DECIDE. The HCERES evaluation confirmed CEA-List’s unique role in upstream research and industrial competitiveness.
Our people are committed to making scientific and technological advances in service to research and to society. It is their passion and determination, which yielded remarkable results in 2024, to be discovered in this new report!
In 2023, we have initiated many foundational projects in our main focus area— digital—in alignment with French and EU strategies and consolidated our research programs around a clear strategy in support of innovation.
Discover in this scientific activity report an overview of the projects in which the CEA List teams are involved (PEPR programs (Priority Research Programs and Equipment) and Major Challenges of Acceleration Strategies), their latest research results, but also the articulation of our strategic vision with novel innovation platforms and new collaboration modalities, our European strategy, our eco-innovation approach…
Download the 2023 research report in pdf:
Here are a few of the scientific advances and highlights that marked the year 2021:
If you would like to explore more of the technological advances that marked the year 2021 at CEA-List, download the report!
Here are a few of the scientific advances and highlights that marked the year 2020:
If you would like to explore more of the technological advances that marked the year 2020 at CEA-List, download our Annual Report!
Download our 2019 activity report “the challenges of our future”:
Discover the 2018 highlights of our technological advances in pdf:
Download “Smart innovation”, our 2017 activity report:
