In this episode of the Practical AI podcast, Alexandre De Fussey, co-founder of the non-profit AI lab Kyutai, shares insights about their innovative open-source speech model, Moshi. The conversation highlights Kyutai's distinctive role in the French AI landscape, the challenges and breakthroughs in developing a full-duplex, low-latency speech model, and the data sets that powered Moshi's training. They also explore future research directions in real-time speech interaction and advancements beyond transformers. Additionally, the episode features sponsorship segments from Fly.io and Timescale.
