Deepgram Acquires Pipecat Maker Daily, Says Framework Stays Open Source
Summary
Deepgram acquires Daily, the company behind the open source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum. The companies say Pipecat will remain open source. Deepgram and the Pipecat team also release the Real-Time Context Standard, an open protocol for voice agents.
Key Points
- Kwindla Kramer says he chose Deepgram after CEO Scott Stephenson pledged Pipecat stays vendor-neutral open source forever.
- Daily has raised more than $62 million from investors including Tiger Global, Highfield Capital and Nat Friedman, per PitchBook data.
- Deepgram and Daily come from the same Y Combinator batch in 2016.