Neil Zeghidour
@neilzegh
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Announcing Gradium. After 10 years of pushing audio research at Meta, Google and Kyutai, I'm joining the start-up arena with my day 1s to take our models from the lab to every voice product out there. Game on.
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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@kyutai_labs is partnering with @gen_intuition for open research on world models. If you want to join or lead research on this topic, this is a unique opportunity to join our lab.
Awesome panel on world models (and beyond) at @Scaleway'ai-Pulse. Delighted to collaborate with @gen_intuition and to have @ylecun as scientific advisor!
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Faithful to our culture of live demos with no safety net, I demonstrated yesterday how our API can already turn robots into live conversational buddies that can switch emotion, language or voice based on context, through simple function calls.
Yesterday at AI Pulse we plugged our real-time STT + TTS API into @reachymini and turned it into a live, unscripted conversational robot. Voice, personality, language, gestures, all controlled by speech. Big shoutout to @pollenrobotics and @huggingface for making this cool little
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Massive thanks to @ylecun for a great conversation, and all your contributions to the field. Enjoy our keynote on World Models & Yann's new company!
Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist, Meta, @ylecun), @PimDeWitte (CEO, General Intuition), and Aude Durand (Kyutai, @aude_drn), talk about world models, embodied agents, Yann's new company, and the limitations of LLMs 0:00 - Introduction to World Models 5:00 - Why World Models,
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1/NeurIPS is this week. On my way to San Diego, I’ve been revisiting last year’s talks and noticing how much they shaped my investing. The loudest takeaway then was that ASR, transcription, and voice AI were basically “solved.”
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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A major new entrant in voice AI: @GradiumAI If we were designing computers from scratch today, the default interface probably wouldn’t be a keyboard. It would be voice. Voice is the most natural interface we have, and probably the most underserved modality in AI today.
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Awesomesauce from FAIR-Paris' very first PhD graduate @neilzegh and his team at @GradiumAI
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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Excited to see the open-source lab @kyutai_labs spinning out @GradiumAI – increasingly growing potential in robotics and real-time applications
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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Excited to back Neil and the gradium team as they tackle voice with the best researchers in the space
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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Humanity is at a turning point. I am launching UMA to build general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots from Europe. Proud to start with people I admired for years, and grateful for all your support! Reach out to us @UMA_Robots ❤️
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Launching @kyutai_labs x @gen_intuition - research collab at the frontier World models and agents capable of spatiotemporal reasoning are the next frontier. As builders of this technology, we have a responsibility to educate. This is impossible without both unique data and
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When I was looking for a PhD position, @ylecun opened the Paris office and I had the chance to join as a permanent PhD student in the first batch. Most important moment of my career, and this lab gave birth to the whole Paris ecosystem.
Hats off to @ylecun! FAIR shaped my career, period. I truly thanks @AIatMeta and FAIR to provide such a nice place for independent exploration and open research! End of an era and forever remember. https://t.co/5KTJCPpty2
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Hats off to @ylecun! FAIR shaped my career, period. I truly thanks @AIatMeta and FAIR to provide such a nice place for independent exploration and open research! End of an era and forever remember. https://t.co/5KTJCPpty2
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Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push
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"Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play." Friedrich Nietzsche
when i've observed the greats operating at their absolute best they resemble cracked out starcraft players to me. at the top of their game they embody action alone and forget causes, consequence, circumstance. this looks psychopathic from the outside: how does he not crack under
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🚨 Wanna join a laser-focused AI research lab in Europe? Kyutai is hiring! Based in central Paris, we are a highly-funded non-profit lab where daring open research meets the real world, paving the way to tomorrow's technologies. It is all about focus, passion and speed. With no
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And us audio researchers have known that since 2022 when we introduced “semantic” and “acoustic” tokens in AudioLM!
Another one 4 different papers coincidentally discovered the same thing at the same time
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Interesting to attribute this to Meta, when it's really that François Fleuret has been one of the most creative "neural architects" for a while.
🚨 Holy shit...Meta just rewrote how Transformers think. They built something called The Free Transformer and it breaks the core rule every GPT model has lived by since 2017. For 8 years, Transformers have been blindfolded forced to guess the next token one at a time, no inner
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1/2 We’re releasing an in-depth tutorial on neural audio codecs, the secret sauce that makes it possible for audio LLMs to not sound like a horror movie:
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