Kyutai
Kyutai is an AI research lab dedicated to building and democratizing artificial general intelligence through open science. It develops multimodal, reliable, adaptable and efficient models and shares research, model weights, code and technical details with researchers, developers, companies and the public.
At a Glance
- AI researchers and academic institutions
- Developers and open-source communities
- Companies building multimodal, voice and edge-AI applications
- AI startups and entrepreneurs
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AI Tools by Kyutai
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Pocket TTS
CPU Text to Speech Python Library
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Products & Services
An experimental speech-native, real-time voice AI that listens and speaks continuously, models user and system audio in separate streams, and supports overlap, interruptions, backchanneling and expressive conversation.
A causal neural audio codec used with Moshi that jointly models semantic and acoustic information at 12.5 Hz and 1.1 kbps.
A modular, multilingual 2B-parameter language model released as an open research artifact.
An on-device, simultaneous, high-fidelity speech-to-speech translation system.
Market Position
Kyutai positions itself as a privately funded, non-profit European alternative to closed commercial AI labs, emphasizing open models, code and scientific reproducibility. In foundation and multimodal AI it operates in the same broad competitive landscape as OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Meta; in open speech and voice it overlaps with projects such as Meta's open audio work and commercial voice platforms including ElevenLabs, while differentiating through full-duplex real-time research, CPU/edge efficiency and open science.
Leadership
Founders
Xavier Niel
Founder and chairman of the iliad Group, the French telecommunications group; a principal founding donor and co-founder of Kyutai.
Rodolphe Saadé
President and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, the global shipping, logistics and transport company; a principal founding donor and co-founder of Kyutai.
Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO and chairman, and founder of Schmidt Futures/Schmidt Sciences; joined as a co-founder through Schmidt Sciences.
Executive Team
Patrick Pérez
Chief Executive Officer
Applied mathematician with more than 30 years in computer vision and machine learning; previously worked at Inria, Brown University, Microsoft Research, Technicolor and Valeo, where he was Scientific Director and VP of AI.
Laurent Mazaré
Head of Engineering
Applied mathematics and computer science graduate with a PhD in cryptography/formal methods; previously quantitative strategist and researcher at Goldman Sachs and Jane Street, and research engineer at DeepMind.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Kyutai was announced at Station F in Paris on 17 November 2023 as a privately funded, non-profit laboratory focused on open AI research. The founding vision was to create a world-class European research effort that would publish models, code and technical details, train future AI experts, and make advances available to the wider ecosystem; its initial research push focused on voice AI.
Target Markets
- AI researchers and academic institutions
- Developers and open-source communities
- Companies building multimodal, voice and edge-AI applications
- AI startups and entrepreneurs
- Assistive-technology and AAC professionals
- Public-sector and societal stakeholders
- Open academic and industrial AI research
- Real-time voice assistants and conversational agents
- Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech translation
- Voice interfaces for text LLMs
- Assistive and augmentative communication for people with ALS
- On-device and low-resource speech applications