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Kyutai unveils Moshi AI with groundbreaking vocal abilities ========== Kyutai, a non-profit organization, has unveiled its latest development, Moshi AI, in Paris. The AI model, developed by a team of eight researchers in just six months, has unprecedented vocal capabilities. Moshi demonstrated its ability to communicate in a smooth, natural, and expressive manner during a public presentation. The AI model's potential applications include coaching, companionship, and roleplay character incarnations. Moshi's interactive demo will be available online from the Kyutai website, making it the world's first generative voice AI. The model is designed to be compact and can be installed locally on devices, ensuring safe operation without an internet connection. Kyutai plans to make Moshi openly accessible by sharing the code and weights of the model, benefiting researchers and developers working on voice-based products and services. Moshi's capabilities are particularly relevant to applications involving speech in the digital world, such as virtual assistants, educational tools, and therapeutic applications. Kyutai intends to continue its dedication to open research in AI and expand its research to include multimodality. The organization aims to launch its first PhD theses by the end of the year and create general-purpose AI models with high capabilities. #Ai #VocalCapabilities #Moshi #Kyutai #OpenResearch https://itbrief.com.au/story/kyutai-unveils-moshi-ai-with-groundbreaking-vocal-abilities