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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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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
$330M
$380M
KyutaiModular
Last Valuation
$1.6B (last independent round; later acquired by Qualcomm for ~$3.9B)
KyutaiModular
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2023
Founded
2022
Paris, France
HQ
Palo Alto, California
Private
Status
Private
Kyutai investors
Iliad Group (Xavier Niel)CMA CGM Group (Rodolphe Saadé)Schmidt Futures (Eric Schmidt)
Modular investors
GV (Google Ventures)General CatalystGreylock PartnersDFJ GrowthUS Innovative Technology (Thomas Tull)
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