Neil is co-founder and CEO of Gradium, a generative audio startup training and serving frontier models for real-time conversation. He previously created the Kyutai non-profit lab and led a generative audio research team at Google DeepMind, with contributions including Google’s first text-to-music API, a voice preserving speech-to-speech translation system, and the first real-time conversational AI. Before that, Neil spent three years at Facebook AI Research, working on automatic speech recognition and audio understanding.