Voice, video & media · Paris, FR · founded 2023

Kyutai: who founded it, who funds it

Kyutai is a Paris voice and video AI lab founded in 2023 by Neil Zeghidour, Alexandre Défossez, Edouard Grave and Hervé Jégou, who came from DeepMind and Meta. What it is building: open-science voice models (Moshi); a nonprofit lab funded by Xavier Niel and Rodolphe Saadé. No funding round has been disclosed. It releases open-weight models.

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Founders: Neil Zeghidour (ex-Google DeepMind), Alexandre Défossez (ex-Meta), Edouard Grave (ex-Meta), Hervé Jégou (ex-Meta)
Founders from: ex-Google DeepMind, ex-Meta
Location: Paris, FR (Europe)
Valuation: ·
Raised: · disclosed
Investors: ·
What ships: Open model

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News

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Dec 9, 2025
How a non-profit research lab produced France’s hottest new AI start-up

AnalysisScience|BusinessKyutai
Nov 25, 2023
French AI lab Kyutai secures $330 million - and bets on open source

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Nov 17, 2023
Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

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Nov 17, 2023
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