Nonprofit French AI research lab in Paris building open-science speech and language models (Moshi, Helium).

Kyutai is a nonprofit AI research lab based in Paris, founded in November 2023 with backing from French industrial and philanthropic investors. It positions itself as an open-science counterweight to closed commercial labs.

Notable releases include Moshi, a real-time full-duplex speech-to-speech model, and Helium, a compact multilingual language model, both open-licensed.

As a French nonprofit funded by industrial and philanthropic backers rather than a venture-backed startup, its goal is to give researchers outside the large US labs free access to comparable technology.