Overview
- Gradium said it reopened its seed round and has now raised $100 million after adding Nvidia as a new investor.
- The Paris startup spun out of the Kyutai research lab and is led by co-founder Neil Zeghidour, a former researcher at Google Brain and DeepMind.
- Gradium builds ultra-low-latency voice models for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and real-time translation for developers.
- The company plans to use the funding to open a San Francisco Bay Area office to hire U.S. AI talent and accelerate product rollouts.
- Nvidia’s participation signals a tilt toward Nvidia GPU infrastructure that could reinforce GPU-centered stacks and affect competition among cloud and decentralized compute providers.