Deepgram acquires Daily and will keep Pipecat open source
Original title: Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
The price was not disclosed, and Deepgram is also launching an open Real-Time Context Standard for voice agents.
Deepgram said Thursday it is acquiring Daily, maker of the open-source Pipecat framework for real-time voice and video pipelines, and will keep Pipecat open source. Daily has raised over $62 million, while Deepgram earlier reached unicorn status with a $130 million Series C. The companies say the deal lets developers plug different models into agent workflows. Both firms were in the same 2016 Y Combinator batch.
- Daily’s investors include Tiger Global, Highfield Capital, Nat Friedman, Lachy Groom and Kevin Weil.
- Pipecat links speech-to-text, language models and text-to-speech while reducing latency.
- Daily co-founder Kwindla Kramer cited a pledge to keep Pipecat vendor-neutral.
- The new protocol carries audio context, model instructions and response-sound guidance.
- Organizations
- Y CombinatorTiger Global
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Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
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