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GradiumGradium builds real-time voice AI infrastructure — low-latency streaming speech-to-text, expressive text-to-speech, semantic turn detection, and voice agent frameworks for developers and enterprises.
3 Pulse stories
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ModularModular builds AI infrastructure software — the Mojo programming language and MAX AI compute platform — designed to unify and speed up AI model deployment across hardware and break Nvidia's CUDA lock-in.
4 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$100M
$380M
GradiumModular
Last Valuation
$1.6B (last independent round; later acquired by Qualcomm for ~$3.9B)
GradiumModular
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2022
Paris, France
HQ
Palo Alto, California
Private
Status
Private
Gradium investors
NvidiaFirstMark CapitalEurazeoXavier NielDST Global PartnersEric SchmidtAmplify PartnersKorelya Capital
Modular investors
GV (Google Ventures)General CatalystGreylock PartnersDFJ GrowthUS Innovative Technology (Thomas Tull)
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