Deepgram Acquires Daily, Developer of Open-Source Voice Framework Pipecat
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On October 29, 2026, Deepgram announced its acquisition of Daily, the developer and maintainer of the open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, with the deal amount undisclosed. Pipecat is an orchestration framework that manages audio and video streams and coordinates components such as speech recognition (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) to reduce latency. Deepgram said it will strengthen its voice AI infrastructure and pledged that Pipecat will remain open-source and neutral forever. Daily had previously raised more than $62 million. Notably, both companies are from the same 2016 Y Combinator batch. At the same time, Deepgram also released the RCS open protocol. All current reports were published on the same day, with no further deal details disclosed.
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- TechCrunch · AIDeepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
Deepgram announced the acquisition of Daily, the developer and maintainer of the open source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed amount, with a commitment that Pipecat will remain open source and neutral forever. Pipecat is an orchestration framework that manages voice and video streams and coordinates STT, LLM, TTS and other steps to reduce latency; Daily had raised more than $62 million, and both companies were in the 2016 Y Combinator batch.
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