Gradium released a text-to-speech beta on September 22nd that it says produces first audio in under 50 milliseconds, a claim the company made in a two-post thread on X and that developers can test in …
Hume published its Voice Replication Leaderboard on September 10, 2026, testing 11 voice cloning models on 25 reference voices with 7 prompts, where Fish Audio s2-pro led the vendors covered at 4.03 o…
Gradium, the Paris-based voice AI company spun out of the Kyutai research lab, launched Voice Design, a tool that generates new synthetic voices from a text description in seconds, live in its API and…
Gradium has made a new text-to-speech model the default for its API and Studio, claiming an 81.0% hard-case pass rate and 216 ms median time to first audio on Coval's TTS benchmark. The model, live si…
Accel-backed Keenable, founded by former Yandex search chief Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding to build a web search index of over 1…
Gradium, the voice AI developer led by CEO Neil Zeghidour, opened a public beta on July 30th for a text-to-speech model designed to pronounce phone numbers, email addresses, IBANs and time expressions…
The machine translation industry is seeing convergence as translation AI companies launch their own TMS platforms, while TMSes add AI features. DeepL launched Translation Flow to connect enterprise ap…
Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium extended its seed financing to $100 million, adding Nvidia as a new investor and opening a San Francisco Bay Area office. The company, founded by former Kyutai res…
Gradium, a Paris-based voice AI startup backed by Nvidia, raised $100M to commercialize its audio-native language model that achieves sub-200ms latency, beating human conversation turn-taking baseline…
Gradium, an AI startup spun out of Kyutai, raised a $100 million seed extension backed by Nvidia to accelerate development of real-time speech models and expand into the San Francisco Bay Area. The fu…
Nvidia led a $30 million extension to Gradium's seed round, pushing the total past $100 million for the seven-month-old Paris voice AI startup. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy to gain equity …
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raised $100 million in a seed round reopened to new investors, including Nvidia. The company plans to use the funds to open a Bay Area office and compete for talen…
AI and deep-tech startups raised over $500 million in the past 24 hours, led by quantum-computing firm Oratomic's $300 million Series A and AI-agent startup Prime Intellect's $130 million Series A at …
Gradium launched two real-time speech translation models, stt-translate and s2s-translate, covering 20 language pairs across English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The models collapse the s…
Thinking Machines released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters, advancing real-time voice interaction by processing audio and images in under 20…