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Moshi

Kyutai · 2024 · Speech AI · France

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A · App
No
B · Built By
Kyutai
C · CEO & Politics
Patrick Perez — Centrist (France-based)
D · Date
2024
E · Expertise
Intermediate+
F · Free Tier
Yes
G · Generates
Text only
H · Deployment
Cloud + 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
Speech AI
N · Safety Issues
None reported
O · Open Source
Yes — open weights
P · Pricing
Free (open weights, CC BY 4.0; code MIT and Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating
[UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special
Kyutai's Moshi, a speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework for real-time conversation, built on Mimi, Kyutai's streaming neural audio codec; it ships PyTorch (research), MLX (on-device on iPhone and Mac) and Rust (production) inference stacks.
S · Stock / Status
Non-profit (France)
T · Training Cutoff
[UNKNOWN]
U · Users
[UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat
Yes
W · Weights
Downloadable
X · X Handle
@kyutai_labs
Y · Year Founded
[UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line
Open-weights Speech AI from Kyutai, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

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