--- title: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, makers of Pipecat | daily.dev description: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. Pipecat will stay fully open source under its BSD V2 license,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-is-acquiring-daily-makers-of-pipecat-xad1oc5hb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, makers of Pipecat | daily.dev og:description: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. Pipecat will stay fully open source under its BSD V2 license,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-is-acquiring-daily-makers-of-pipecat-xad1oc5hb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xAD1Oc5hb.png og:image:alt: Deepgram is acquiring Daily, makers of Pipecat 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 is acquiring Daily, makers of Pipecat **[Deepgram](https://daily.dev/sources/deepgram)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. Pipecat will stay fully open source under its BSD V2 license, and an independent Pipecat Foundation is being established with contributing organizations. The Daily team, including co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer, joins Deepgram, with Kramer becoming Head of Open Source. Deepgram also introduced the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol co-developed with Pipecat that carries audio context like tone and whispers across model handoffs. Daily's network spans 75 points of presence for low-latency voice AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Who acquired Daily, the company behind Pipecat? Deepgram acquired Daily, the maker of the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat, announced at Deepgram's inaugural Speak event on October 29. Pipecat remains fully open source under its BSD V2 license, and an independent Pipecat Foundation is being set up with contributing organizations. The Daily team, including co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer, is joining Deepgram, with Kramer becoming Head of Open Source. _Track how this acquisition affects the Pipecat ecosystem's direction on daily.dev before committing to it in your stack._ ### What is the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS) in voice AI? RCS is an open protocol co-developed by Deepgram and Pipecat that preserves audio context, such as tone, who's speaking, and background events, as it passes between models in a voice AI pipeline. It defines three metadata types: signals from audio like a whisper or unclear word, instructions for how a language model should use them, and guidance on how the response should sound. _Developers wiring multi-model voice pipelines can follow RCS adoption on daily.dev as the spec evolves._ ### Will Pipecat stay open source after being acquired by Deepgram? Yes, Pipecat remains fully open source and free under its existing BSD V2 license after Deepgram's acquisition of Daily. An independent Pipecat Foundation is being established with organizations that contribute to and use Pipecat, and Deepgram says it will invest in the framework's development while keeping it vendor neutral so developers can mix models, tools, and transport providers. _Anyone relying on Pipecat for voice agents can watch the foundation's formation unfold on 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 - [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 - [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 --- 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-is-acquiring-daily-makers-of-pipecat-xad1oc5hb) ```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 is acquiring Daily, makers of Pipecat","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-is-acquiring-daily-makers-of-pipecat-xad1oc5hb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/deepgram-is-acquiring-daily-makers-of-pipecat-xad1oc5hb"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T13:01:13.244Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T18:10:23.309Z","description":"Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice agent framework Pipecat. 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