Deepgram announced on Thursday, October 29 that it is acquiring Daily, the team behind open-source voice-agent framework Pipecat — per the announcements Pipecat stays fully open source under its BSD V2 license and an independent Pipecat Foundation is being established, with Deepgram also introducing the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol that carries audio context between models

“The team behind the open-source voice framework Pipecat is joining Deepgram — and the companies say the framework will stay open and vendor-neutral, with an independent foundation being established.”

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• On Thursday, October 29, 2026, Deepgram announced it is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice-agent framework Pipecat — per Deepgram's post, the company 'today announced that it is acquiring Daily, creators of Pipecat, the world's most popular open-source voice agent framework', and 'The Pipecat framework will remain fully open source and free to all developers under its existing BSD V2 license.' Per Daily's same-day post by co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer, 'For Daily's customers and the Pipecat ecosystem, nothing will change.', 'Deepgram will sell, support, and develop all of Daily's current products and services. And Pipecat will remain open source and vendor neutral.', and 'We are establishing an independent Pipecat Foundation. The foundation will be managed by a steering committee that represents the entire realtime AI ecosystem, including companies that compete with Deepgram.' — with 'Today, Pipecat has more than 200 integrations and almost 400 contributors.' as Daily's own ecosystem count, and 'Deepgram is adopting Pipecat as the core of the company's new voice AI products and services.' Kramer is quoted in Deepgram's post: 'Keeping Pipecat open was fundamental to our decision to join Deepgram,' and the post says Kramer joins Deepgram as Head of Open Source. Deepgram's post also introduces the Real-Time Context Standard: 'At Deepgram Speak today in San Francisco, Stephenson will also introduce the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol co-developed with the Pipecat team.' — the post's own announcement-day 'today' — where 'RCS defines three new types of metadata: context from the audio, such as a whisper or an unclear word; instructions for how a language model should use those signals; and guidance for how the response should sound.' Per the post, 'That lets an agent ask for clarification when it didn't hear clearly or respond quietly to someone whispering.' and 'Adapters translate those signals and delivery instructions for each model, so developers can use the same approach with models from different providers.' TechCrunch (Ivan Mehta, publishedTime 2026-10-29T13:00:00+00:00) reports 'The companies didn't disclose the deal amount but said that they will keep Pipecat open source.', adds 'Daily has raised over $62 million in funding to date from investors such as Tiger Global, Highfield Capital, Nat Friedman, Lachy Groom, and Kevin Weil, according to PitchBook data.', 'Earlier this year, Deepgram reached unicorn status with a $130 million Series C round.', and 'Incidentally, both companies were in the same Y Combinator batch in 2016.', and quotes Kramer from its interview: 'Scott was super committed to Pipecat being open source and vendor-neutral forever.' — a 'forever' that appears in neither official post's own commitment sentences, which say 'will remain' and 'are establishing' without a duration word.