​Iterate - Paris Voice AI Hack - Gradium, Kyutai, Pyannote, Pareto & FOMO

​Join us on Sunday, December 14th, from 9:30am to 7:30pm, for a full-day Voice AI hackathon in Paris with Gradium (raised 70m to build the next Audio Unicorn), Kyutai (Moshi, Hibiki and the best TTS & STT open-source models out there), Pyannote (the kings of diarization models), Pareto (early-stage VC fund that backed 40+ unicorns) and Unaite (biggest AI community in France).

One day. One room. 100 builders. An amazing jury. Fast prototyping and real demos.

​You will build with cutting-edge voice models, real-time APIs, and tools designed for experimentation.
No slides. No fluff. Just shipping.

​Event Details
📍 Paris
🕘 9:30am – 7:30pm
👥 Teams up to 5
⚙️ Format: In-person only

​​​All participants must apply and be accepted individually. We’ll open a Discord server ahead of the event to help you form teams.

​​​🏆 Prizes & Perks

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We’re giving out cash prizes, AI credits, swag - and exclusive mentorship opportunities with our partners. Whether you’re aiming to win or just to ship something ambitious, top teams will walk away with:
• $3k prize
• AI credits & partner-merch
• Surprise prizes :)

​Brought to you by Iterate, FOMO and Unaite, with the help of:

​Gradium — a Paris-based AI startup building the real-time voice layer for next-generation AI. Spun out of Kyutai, it develops fast, expressive audio-language models that unify speech generation, understanding, and dialogue. Backed by a major $70M seed round, Gradium provides low-latency streaming APIs that let companies power natural, multilingual voice agents and voice-first applications at scale.

​Kyutai — a leading French AI research lab focused on open, real-time voice and multimodal models. They build fast, expressive voice systems and release their work openly for the global AI community.

​pyannoteAI — a leading AI lab that provides an enterprise-grade Speaker Intelligence Platform that delivers speaker insights and metadata in any conversation, powering accurate Voice AI solutions worldwide.

​Pareto — a venture capital firm backing founders at the earliest stages. They invest in ambitious technical teams and support them with hands-on guidance and strong conviction in European AI.

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​FOMO is a global community across the US and Europe. From Silicon Valley to Paris, we host corporate hackathons, workshops, and small curated events that bring together founders, engineers, students, and researchers.

​Iterate is the hackathon company, organizing really high quality hackathons all around the world.

Unaite brings together the top French engineering and business schools and connects the AI clubs of Polytechnique, CentraleSupélec, Télécom Paris, École des Ponts, ENSAE, HEC, ESSEC, and Université Paris Dauphine – PSL.