Gradium Extends Funding to $100 Million and Expands to Silicon Valley

Gradium extends its seed funding to $100 million, welcoming new investors including NVIDIA, and opens a San Francisco Bay Area office to scale its real-time voice AI.

Gradium releases Phonon, an open-source text-to-speech model that runs on any device

Trained on NVIDIA GPUs, Phonon generates natural speech locally in as little as 64.5 MB, on phones, laptops, embedded hardware and in the browser.