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December 3, 2025
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed
Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.
TL;DR
- Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai, has launched out of stealth.
- The company raised $70 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo.
- Gradium develops audio language AI models for voice at scale with ultra-low latency.
- Founded in September by Neil Zeghidour, a former researcher at Google DeepMind.
- Aims to make voice models speedier and more accurate for developers.
- Launched with multilingual support including English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Faces competition from major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Llama, Mistral, and startups like ElevenLabs.
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