Kyutai

Kyutai is a French non-profit AI research laboratory based in Paris, focused on advancing open-source research in speech and language AI. The lab is best known for developing Moshi, a real-time full-duplex speech AI assistant, Mimi, a neural speech codec and tokenizer, and Hibiki, an end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model. Backed by French tech billionaire Xavier Niel, Kyutai operates as an open-science lab, publishing its models and research openly.