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EtchedEtched designs Sohu, a transformer-only ASIC chip built to accelerate AI inference workloads more efficiently than general-purpose GPUs like Nvidia's.
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KyutaiA Paris-based nonprofit AI research lab focused on open-science multimodal and voice AI models (creator of the Moshi voice model, and progenitor of spinout Gradium).
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Total Raised
$800M
$330M
EtchedKyutai
Last Valuation
$10.3B
EtchedKyutai
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2022
Founded
2023
San Jose, California
HQ
Paris, France
Private
Status
Private
Etched investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen HorowitzJane StreetSK HynixStripesPeter Thiel/Thiel CapitalPrimary Venture PartnersPositive Sum Ventures
Kyutai investors
Iliad Group (Xavier Niel)CMA CGM Group (Rodolphe Saadé)Schmidt Futures (Eric Schmidt)
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