Kyutai
Kyutai is an independent nonprofit AI research lab in Paris. It develops language, speech and visual models and publishes research code and model releases with terms that vary by project.
Company & leadership
- CEO
- Patrick Pérez, listed by the current team page.
- Research and engineering leads
- Alexandre Défossez leads research; Laurent Mazaré leads engineering.
- Founding organizations
- Iliad Group, CMA CGM Group and Schmidt Futures. The current site names Schmidt Sciences among its donors.
- Launch funding
- Iliad and CMA CGM each committed €100 million. The launch announcement described nearly €300 million in total support; this is not a current valuation.
Founders
- Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé and Eric Schmidt.
