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Deepgram has acquired Daily, the maker of the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat, the companies announced on Thursday during Deepgram Speak, Deepgram's first conference in San Francisco. The deal amount was not disclosed. Pipecat will remain open source under its existing BSD V2 licence, and an independent Pipecat Foundation will be established with a steering committee that includes competing companies. Daily co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer will become Deepgram's head of open source, and the Daily team will join Deepgram. Deepgram will support and develop Daily’s current products and integrate Pipecat into its new voice AI offerings.
Both companies, which went through Y Combinator in 2016, have a history of collaboration, with Deepgram providing transcription for Daily since 2019. Deepgram also introduced the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol co-developed with the Pipecat team, designed to improve voice agents by adding metadata such as audio signals, model instructions and response guidance.
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