Helium-1
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Kyutai
- C · CEO & Politics
- Patrick Perez — Centrist (France-based)
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- France
- K · Key Staffers
- Alexandre Défossez (Head of Research), Laurent Mazaré (Head of Engineering)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Audio/Speech
- N · Safety Issues
- Voice cloning misuse potential.
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 5/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.15
- R · What Makes It Special
- Lightweight 2B-parameter language model from Kyutai for edge and mobile devices, supporting the 24 official EU languages; a base model (not instruction-tuned), released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- S · Stock / Status
- Non-profit (France)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @kyutai_labs
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Audio/Speech from Kyutai, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Helium-1.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/kyutai-helium-1.html