Deepgram Acquires Voice AI Infrastructure Developer Daily; Open-Source Framework Pipecat to Remain Open

On October 30, TechFlow reported, citing TechCrunch, that voice AI company Deepgram has acquired Daily, the developer of the open-source voice AI infrastructure framework Pipecat. The transaction amount was not disclosed, and both parties pledged to keep Pipecat open source and vendor-neutral. Pipecat can manage voice and video streams and integrate speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) to reduce real-time interaction latency.

The acquisition will help Deepgram strengthen its real-time voice and video infrastructure positioning while expanding beyond voice AI models. Daily co-founder Kwindla Kramer will join Deepgram. Deepgram also announced the launch of the open protocol Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), developed with the Pipecat team, to define audio context, model instructions, and voice response specifications for voice AI agents.

Source: TechFlow