Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

Deepgram announced it is acquiring Daily, the maker and maintainer of the open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, with the deal amount undisclosed and Pipecat to remain open-source. Daily, which has raised over $62 million from investors including Tiger Global and Nat Friedman, was in the same 2016 Y Combinator batch as Deepgram, which reached unicorn status with a $130 million Series C earlier this year. Deepgram is also launching the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol for voice agents co-developed with the Pipecat team.