Theme
NonprofitAcademic + NonprofitResearch

Kyutai

Kyutai is a nonprofit research lab pushing open speech and multimodal systems, with an explicit mission to democratize advanced AI through open science.

HQ

Paris, France

Founded

2023

Region

Europe

Current snapshot

Lifecycle position

Research

New work, prototypes, or early papers.

Current position

Preview

Selective access, early demos, or limited pilots.

Growth

Repeatable distribution, partnerships, or ecosystem pull.

Deployment

Wide production use and durable market presence.

Founded

2023

Watch cadence

Weekly

Last verified

2026-03-31

Focus

Open research lab for multimodal and speech systems

Latest move

Trying to establish a European nonprofit alternative to closed frontier labs.

Category and subcategory context

Open Weight LabsMedia ModelsResearchAudio / speechOpen source

Competitive context

MilaAI2Stanford CRFM

Recent models

MoshiHibikispeech research stack

Products

MoshiHibiki

Open weights

Yes

API access

No

Watch level

Weekly

Signals

SpeechOpen researchEurope

Recent coverage of Kyutai

Recent business and product coverage pulled into the profile so you can see what is happening around the company without leaving the page.

Iliad brings Orange, EDF, Hugging Face, Kyutai, Quandela and Artefact together in a consortium to create an AI gigafactory in France

Iliad brings Orange, EDF, Hugging Face, Kyutai, Quandela and Artefact together in a consortium to create an AI gigafactory in France Maddyness

MaddynessMay 27

Kyutai releases Moshi, an open-source conversational AI assistant

Kyutai releases Moshi, an open-source conversational AI assistant the-decoder.com

the-decoder.comSep 19

Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Breakthrough Full-Duplex Real-Time Dialogue System that Revolutionizes Human-like Conversations with Unmatched Latency and Speech Quality

Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Breakthrough Full-Duplex Real-Time Dialogue System that Revolutionizes Human-like Conversations with Unmatched Latency and Speech Quality MarkTechPost

MarkTechPostSep 18

Research lab Kyutai dedicated to AI open science launched

Research lab Kyutai dedicated to AI open science launched Seatrade Maritime News

Seatrade Maritime NewsSep 4

Moshi AI Chatbot With Real-Time Voice Features Launched by Kyutai Labs as GPT-4o Rival

Moshi AI Chatbot With Real-Time Voice Features Launched by Kyutai Labs as GPT-4o Rival Gadgets 360

Gadgets 360Jul 5

Launch of Kyutai – Europe’s first independent research lab dedicated to AI open science, co-founded by the iliad Group, CMA CGM and Schmidt Futures

Launch of Kyutai – Europe’s first independent research lab dedicated to AI open science, co-founded by the iliad Group, CMA CGM and Schmidt Futures cmacgm-group.com

cmacgm-group.comNov 17