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Oct 29, 2026

Deepgram acquires Daily to bolster voice AI infrastructure with Pipecat framework

Voice AI company Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the maker of Pipecat, a popular open-source framework for building voice agents. The companies have confirmed that Pipecat will remain open source and free under its existing BSD V2 license following the acquisition.

Oct 29, 20264 sources

Top claims

▪The Daily engineering team will join Deepgram as part of the acquisition, with Daily co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer serving as Deepgram's head of open source while Deepgram sells, supports, and develops Daily's existing product suite.
▪Daily co-founder Kwindla Kramer chose Deepgram's acquisition offer over interest from other potential buyers because Deepgram CEO Scott Stephenson committed to keeping Pipecat open source and vendor-neutral.
▪The Pipecat framework features over 200 integrations and almost 400 contributors, having been built by 18 engineers at Daily.

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AI Industry1 AI startups1 Building conversational voice AI agents1 Open-source AI1 Speech-to-text AI1 Voice agents1

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