Deepgram收购Pipecat开发商Daily
Deepgram已同意收购Daily，后者开发开源Pipecat框架，并提供实时语音和视频通话的托管基础设施。Pipecat将继续按照BSD V2许可证免费开源，两家公司还将成立独立的Pipecat基金会，交易金额未披露。
此次交易将广泛使用的开源语音智能体框架及其托管实时通信基础设施纳入Deepgram，同时保留Pipecat的开源模式。
The voice AI sector is hot, and top players are trying to consolidate their position as more business models come to the fore through partnerships and acquisitions. Deepgram is the latest to make such moves: The company said on Thursday that it is acquiring Daily, the maker and maintainer of one of the most popular open source voice AI infrastructures, Pipecat.
The companies didn’t disclose the deal amount but said that they will keep Pipecat open source.
For the uninitiated, Pipecat is a framework that manages voice and video streams along with other pieces in the pipeline, like speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) models while reducing latency. Its maker, Daily, provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls of any kind.
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
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. Incidentally, both companies were in the same Y Combinator batch in 2016.