Neil Zeghidour(@neilzegh):The first goal of a benchmark is to foster model improvement. We joined the coval benchmark with leading latency and then got much worse rankings. This was because latency was now measured based on first hearable audio rather than first audio packet. That made us realize our first audio packets were completely silent, now fixed! Thanks @covaldev for making our models better.

Neil Zeghidour

@neilzegh

CEO @GradiumAI. Founder of @kyutai_labs. Invented neural codecs and audio LLMs. Prev. Google DeepMind/Brain, Meta, Toha Heavy Industries.

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Neil Zeghidour@neilzegh

2026.09.10 19:53

The first goal of a benchmark is to foster model improvement. We joined the coval benchmark with leading latency and then got much worse rankings. This was because latency was now measured based on first hearable audio rather than first audio packet. That made us realize our first audio packets were completely silent, now fixed! Thanks @covaldev for making our models better.