Svmuu News: Gradium, a Paris-based real-time speech AI startup, announced the completion of a $100 million seed round, with participation from NVIDIA.
The company has recently rolled out several voice AI products, including real-time speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), real-time translation (Gradium Translate), and the Phonon audio model.The funding will be used to establish a new office in San Francisco, deepen integration with the North American AI industry ecosystem, and accelerate the recruitment of global technical talent. Gradium specializes in ultra-low-latency real-time speech interaction models and originated from the French AI lab Kyutai; its founding team consists of members from top AI institutions such as Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta.