{"id":701720,"date":"2025-12-02T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/paris-based-ai-voice-startup-gradium-nabs-70m-seed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:10:19","slug":"paris-based-ai-voice-startup-gradium-nabs-70m-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/paris-based-ai-voice-startup-gradium-nabs-70m-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday with a $70 million seed round from a who\u2019s who of investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The round was led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, with participation from Niel, DST Global Partners, billionaire Eric Schmidt and other investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/gradium.ai\">Gradium<\/a> has developed audio language AI models designed to deliver voice at scale with ultra-low latency \u2014 essentially, AI voices that respond almost instantly. It was founded just a few months ago,\u00a0in September, 2025, by Kyutai founding member Neil Zeghidour, who cut his teeth working with voice models as a researcher at Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The startup\u2019s goal, it says, is to make voice models speedier and more accurate for developers. And, as a European startup, it launched with multilingual support out of the gate: English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with additional languages coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, Gradium is entering a race with plenty of competition. For starters, the frontier LLM companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/blog\/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence\/\">Meta Llma<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mistral.ai\/news\/voxtral\">Mistral<\/a> all have voice, speech recognition, and multimodal models. Then there are well-funded startups like ElevenLabs, and hundreds of voice\/speech models on Hugging Face. Right now, there\u2019s no shortage of options for a developer needing AI voice capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, the need for what Gradium hopes to offer \u2014 ultra-realistic voice expression and accuracy \u2014 will only grow over time, as AI moves from typed chats to AI agents and expands into use cases from entertainment to work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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