Deepgram buys Daily to boost voice AI infrastructure with Pipecat

deepgram acquired daily, maker of the popular open-source voice ai framework pipecat, for an undisclosed amount. pipecat manages voice and video streams, speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech models while reducing latency. daily's team will join deepgram, and pipecat will remain open-source. deepgram also launched the real-time context standard, an open protocol for voice agents co-developed with the pipecat team. this deal impacts voice ai developers and businesses, enabling them to build more advanced voice agents.