Today, we release several Moshi artifacts: a long technical report with all the details behind our model, weights for Moshi and its Mimi codec, along with streaming inference code in Pytorch, Rust and MLX. More details below 🧵 ⬇️ Paper: kyutai.org/Moshi.pdf Repo: github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi HuggingFace: huggingface.co/kmhf

Meet Helium-1 preview, our 2B multi-lingual LLM, targeting edge and mobile devices, released under a CC-BY license. Start building with it today! huggingface.co/kyutai/helium…

Voice AIs handle speaker turns & interruptions with Voice Activity Detection. VAD is brittle and will trigger due to background noise, creating frequent hiccups. Moshi gets rid of it completely, so you can use it in the most chaotic settings. I myself couldn't hear Moshi here 😅

"Hippie" Moshi tells its love for Hendrix...but "skeptical" Moshi is less enthusiastic about psychedelic rock. Moshi can play 70+ emotions, will you catch them all? Try now at moshi.chat

If you're attending ICML and want to learn more about Kyutai and Moshi, reach out to Edouard!

Moshi goes to #ICML2024 in Vienna! Try the demo at moshi.chat/

Some Moshi extracts! Get your own at moshi.chat/?queue_id=talktom… Don't forget to click the "Download video" at the end (if it's good) 🟢

Thanks @Thom_Wolf Moshi experimental voice AI is indeed a crazy adventure / a radical innovation / a new technology / a surprising experience / a research prototype / a shared resource / a starting point…. not a productized conversational bot.

The @kyutai_labs fully end-to-end audio model demo of today is a huge deal that many people missed in the room Mostly irrelevant are the facts that: - they come a few week after OpenAI ChatGPT-4o - the demo was less polished than the 4o one (in terms of voice quality, voice timing…) Relevant: - the model training pipeline and model archi are simple and hugely scalable, with a tiny 8+ people team like Kyutai building it in 4 months. Synthetic data is a huge enabler here - laser focus on local devices: Moshi will soon be everywhere. Frontier model builders have low incentive to let you run smaller models locally (price per token…) but non-profits like Kyutai have very different incentives. The Moshi demo is already online while the OpenAI 4o one is still in limbo. - going under 300 ms of latency while keeping Llama 8B or above quality of answers is a key enabler in terms of interactivity, it’s game changing, This feeling when the model answer your question before you even finished asking is quite crazy or when you interrupt the model while it’s talking and it react… Predictive coding in a model, instantly updated model of what you’re about to say... Basically they nailed the fundamentals. It’s here. This interactive voice tech will be everywhere. It will soon be an obvious commodity.

Moshi is not an assistant, but rather a prototype for advancing real-time interaction with machines. It can chit-chat, discuss facts and make recommendations, but a more groundbreaking ability is its expressivity and spontaneity that allow for engaging into fun roleplay.

Yesterday we introduced Moshi, the lowest latency conversational AI ever released. Moshi can perform small talk, explain various concepts, engage in roleplay in many emotions and speaking styles. Talk to Moshi here moshi.chat/?queue_id=talktom… and learn more about the method below 🧵.

We've just launched our BRAVO robustness and reliability challenge for semantic segmentation. I and @tuan_hung_vu will be giving away these nice stickers @CVPR Ping us or catch us at the posters to find out more! #CVPR2024