--- title: Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI... description: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. Pipecat stays open source under its existing BSD V2 licence, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-buys-pipecat-maker-daily-and-keeps-the-voice-ai-framework-open-mheud70ca twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open | daily.dev og:description: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. Pipecat stays open source under its existing BSD V2 licence, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-buys-pipecat-maker-daily-and-keeps-the-voice-ai-framework-open-mheud70ca og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mhEUD70ca.png og:image:alt: Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. Pipecat stays open source under its existing BSD V2 licence, and the companies are setting up an independent Pipecat Foundation with a steering committee that includes Deepgram's rivals. Kramer says Pipecat has more than 200 integrations, almost 400 contributors and was built by 18 engineers. Deepgram says Daily runs hosted real-time voice and video infrastructure on a network of 75 points of presence, and TechCrunch reports Daily has raised more than $62m. Deepgram also introduced the Real-Time Context Standard, an open protocol built with the Pipecat team that adds metadata on tone, speaker and background noise to voice AI systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happens to the Pipecat open-source voice AI framework now that Deepgram acquired Daily? Pipecat stays open source and free under its existing BSD V2 license. Deepgram and Daily are creating an independent Pipecat Foundation to govern it, with a steering committee that includes companies that compete with Deepgram. Pipecat already has more than 200 integrations, nearly 400 contributors, and was built by a team of 18 engineers. _Teams betting on an open voice AI stack can follow Pipecat's governance changes on daily.dev._ ### What is the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS) in voice AI? RCS is an open protocol introduced by Deepgram, built with the Pipecat team, for passing metadata about audio alongside transcribed words between voice AI models. It carries three kinds of metadata: signals detected from audio like a whisper or unclear word, instructions for how a language model should use them, and guidance on how a reply should sound, letting an agent re-ask when unclear or reply quietly to a whisper. _Developers designing voice agent pipelines can track emerging protocols like this one on daily.dev._ ### How much funding had Daily raised before being acquired by Deepgram? Daily had raised more than $62 million from investors including Tiger Global, Nat Friedman, and Lachy Groom, according to PitchBook data cited by TechCrunch. Daily runs hosted real-time voice and video infrastructure across a network of 75 points of presence, and Deepgram has powered transcription inside Daily's products since 2019. _Anyone evaluating voice infrastructure vendors can keep tabs on deals like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Even your voice is a data problem](https://daily.dev/posts/even-your-voice-is-a-data-problem-nufu1kapc) · Stack Overflow Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building Your First Voice Agent The Sound of the Future: How to Build an AI Voice Agent](https://daily.dev/posts/building-your-first-voice-agent-the-sound-of-the-future-how-to-build-an-ai-voice-agent-dmfmzti5q) · The Miners · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup](https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-raises-130m-at-1-3b-valuation-and-buys-a-yc-ai-startup-zgboyoa65) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#voice-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/voice-ai), [#deepgram](https://daily.dev/tags/deepgram) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-buys-pipecat-maker-daily-and-keeps-the-voice-ai-framework-open-mheud70ca) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-buys-pipecat-maker-daily-and-keeps-the-voice-ai-framework-open-mheud70ca","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-buys-pipecat-maker-daily-and-keeps-the-voice-ai-framework-open-mheud70ca"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T18:07:47.656Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T18:10:25.216Z","description":"Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. 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