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Deepgram announced the acquisition of Daily, the developer of the open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, with the transaction amount undisclosed; both parties pledged that Pipecat will remain open source. According to TechCrunch AI, Daily had previously raised more than $62 million in cumulative funding; earlier this year, Deepgram became a unicorn with a $130 million Series C round. Deepgram also released the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol developed jointly with the Pipecat team, used to define metadata such as audio context, model instructions, and reply tone in voice agents. No further developments have been disclosed at this time.
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Deepgram Acquires Pipecat Developer Daily and Launches Real-Time Context Standard RCS
Deepgram announced the acquisition of Daily, the developer of the open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum, with both parties committing that Pipecat will remain open source. Daily had previously raised more than $62 million in cumulative funding, and Deepgram became a unicorn earlier this year with a $130 million Series C round. Deepgram also released the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol developed jointly with the Pipecat team to define metadata such as audio context, model instructions, and response tone in voice agents.