OVHcloud completes acquisition of Gladia to boost sovereign voice AI
OVH Groupe (OVHcloud) completed its acquisition of speech-to-text/audio-intelligence API Gladia around 2026-07-31/08-03, issuing 1.8M OVH shares as part of consideration. Confirmed via an official OVH Groupe release (Idéal Investisseur) and TipRanks, both framing it as a 'sovereign voice AI' play. Gladia's prepaid-credit-wallet pricing ($0.61/hr async, $0.75/hr real-time, commit-based Growth from $0.20/hr) was unchanged at capture time — reads as a continuity/integration event, not a wind-down.
OVH Groupe (OVHcloud, the French sovereign-cloud provider) completed its acquisition of Gladia, the speech-to-text and audio-intelligence API, in early August 2026 — issuing 1.8 million OVH shares as consideration per the company’s own release. Coverage (Idéal Investisseur, TipRanks) frames the deal as strengthening OVHcloud’s “sovereign voice AI” offering, pairing Gladia’s speech models with OVHcloud’s European-hosted infrastructure.
Gladia’s pricing (prepaid-credit wallet, $0.61/hr async / $0.75/hr real-time on Starter, commitment-based Growth tier from $0.20/hr, 50 EUR one-time free credits) was unchanged at the time of this note. Gladia is already in this week’s capture batch (carried-forward), so its Facts sections reflect the current rate card; this entry adds the ownership-change context that a pricing-page diff alone would not surface.
Detection note: caught via Layer-0 Google-News corporate-event scanning — the acquisition itself did not necessarily touch Gladia’s pricing pages, so this supplements (not duplicates) this week’s regular capture.
The pricing page added a Starter/Growth/Enterprise feature-comparison table. It makes explicit for the first time that Growth (not just Enterprise) carries a 99.9% uptime SLA and a priority processing queue; dedicated infrastructure remains Enterprise-only. No per-hour rate changed.