AI voice startup Gradium completes $100 million seed funding round, Nvidia participates

CoinFeed July 10 news, according to TechCrunch, Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium has completed a $100 million seed funding round, with new investors including Nvidia. The company emerged from stealth mode last December with $70 million in funding from investors including FirstMark Capital, Eurazeo, DST Global Partners, Eric Schmidt, and French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel. Gradium was spun out of Kyutai AI lab (backed by Niel) and co-founded by researcher Neil Zeghidour, who previously worked at Google Brain, DeepMind, and Facebook, focusing on ultra-low latency voice AI models.