Kokoro v1.0 is an AI model developed by hexgrad, first published in January 2025. It works in the speech domain, on tasks such as text-to-speech (tts) and speech synthesis.
Training it took an estimated 1.7×10²⁰ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 82,000,000 parameters. Training ran on NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.