What Kyutai does
Kyutai is a Paris-based, non-profit open-science AI research lab focused on building and “democratiz[ing]” artificial general intelligence through open research. Its work centers on multimodal foundation models spanning speech, text, and vision, with a strong emphasis on real-time and streaming interaction paradigms and on publishing code, checkpoints, and technical write-ups for the research community. Kyutai describes its mission as developing large multimodal models using multiple input modalities (text, sound, images) and inventing algorithms to improve model capacities, reliability, and efficiency, while sharing results back to the broader ecosystem.