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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed

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Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.

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Launched officially on December 2, the start-up is the commercial creation of the Kyutai research laboratory, founded by Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google France.

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Based in Paris, this artificial intelligence company is co-founded by researchers from Google-DeepMind, Meta and the Kyutai Foundation.

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A first stat-up emerges from the laboratory co-founded by Iliad, with the aim of developing a new conversational AI. Two years ago, Kyutai was born in Paris. This non-profit research laboratory was dedicated to meeting the major challenges of artificial intelligence by developing multimodal open models [...] The article Xavier Niel invests in a brand new vocal assistant made in France from Kyutai (Iliad) was published on Universe Freebox

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TechCrunch broke the news in United States on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
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