{"slug": "gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia", "title": "Gradium Raises $100M Seed Extension Backed by Nvidia", "summary": "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 funding will support AI research, product development, and international growth.", "body_md": "For AI practitioners building real-time voice systems, large seed extensions with strategic corporate investors accelerate availability of low-latency speech models and raise the bar for production-grade tooling. Gradium said in a July 8 blog post that an extension of its seed financing brought total funding to **$100 million**, and that new investors include **Nvidia** (Gradium blog). TechCrunch and Sifted report the extension added roughly **$30 million** to an initial **$70 million** tranche closed at launch (TechCrunch; Sifted). Gradium, which spun out of the Kyutai research lab, described the funds as enabling expanded AI research, product development, international expansion and the opening of a San Francisco Bay Area office (Gradium blog). The company and reporting note recent product advances across real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech translation, on-device models and an open-source voice-agent framework (Gradium blog; Sifted).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia-c735af5a", "published_at": "2026-07-10 01:19:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 02:42:13.369408+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-research", "ai-infrastructure", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Gradium", "Nvidia", "Kyutai", "TechCrunch", "Sifted"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gradium-raises-100m-seed-extension-backed-by-nvidia.jsonld"}}