Kyutai Labs on Wednesday launched Moshi AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that responds verbally in real time. The French AI firm has announced that Moshi's entire audio language model was developed in-house. He can also modulate his voice to express emotions and respond in various speech styles. The AI model can be accessed by the public for free. The AI model currently restricts conversations to five minutes. Interestingly, OpenAI also announced similar speech features with the release of GPT-4o, but it hasn't been released yet.
Features of Moshi AI
The company claims the AI model was developed in six months by a team of eight people. When they presented the AI model at an event in Paris, Kyutai Labs said that Moshi is not an AI assistant but a prototype that can be used to develop tools for different use cases. He has also made the chatbot publicly available here. Users can enter their email and join the queue, but Gadgets 360 staff members were able to get immediate access to the platform without any waiting time.
Yesterday we introduced Moshi, the lowest-latency conversational AI ever released. Moshi can make small talk, explain various concepts, role-play in many emotions and speech styles. Talk to Moshi here https://t.co/a4EbAQiih7 and learn more about the method below 🧵. pic.twitter.com/NkJRybTRLQ
— kyutai (@kyutai_labs) July 4, 2024
The interface of the platform is quite minimalistic. There is a simplified AI design where users can check the loudness of their voice when speaking. There is a text box where only the AI responses appear. Another box near the top shows technical details like audio duration, latency, and dropped audio.
At the top, there is a button to disconnect the call. Currently, the maximum call duration can be five minutes. The description page highlights that Moshi can think, talk and listen at the same time to maximize the flow of conversation.
Gadgets 360 found that latency is extremely low and the AI often responds instantly. However, there are some cases where the response time delay can exceed 10-15 seconds. But this may be due to heavy server load. However, sometimes the verbal cues did not register at all, even after three-quarters of the volume meter was filled.
Moshi AI interface
Photo credit: Kyutai Labs
Gadgets 360 also found that the AI model can respond with an emotive voice and can speak in different styles and using various voice modulations. The AI model is also connected to the Internet and can get answers to queries that require searching the web. Notably, the chatbot does not allow text messages and voice is the only means of interacting with it.
Kyutai Labs has stated that the AI model will be open source. However, the AI company still needs to host the weights and model code in a portal. Once available, users will be able to download and install it locally, and can be run on an offline device.
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