Gradium (ex-Kyutai, ex-Google DeepMind) · Voice Agents
Neil Zeghidour
X account of the Gradium CEO and Kyutai founder who led generative audio at Google Brain/DeepMind — SoundStream, AudioLM, MusicLM, then Moshi. Gradium, spun out of Kyutai in September 2025, pushed its seed past $100M in July 2026 with Nvidia joining, and ships real-time STT, TTS and speech-to-speech translation. Profile not fetchable; facts from press coverage.
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