# Deepgram announces Daily acquisition and will keep Pipecat open source

- Published: 2026-10-29T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T10:04:38.689Z
- Section: Market
- Topics: Business
- Page: https://aidailyjournal.com/en/n/2026/10/29/deepgram-announces-daily-acquisition-and-will-keep-pipecat-open-source/
- Sources: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-acquires-pipecat-maker-daily-to-bolster-its-voice-ai-infrastructure)

## Summary

Deepgram announced its acquisition of Daily, which creates and maintains Pipecat, an open-source framework for managing voice and video streams and integrating speech recognition, language models and speech synthesis while reducing latency. The price was not disclosed, and the companies said Pipecat will remain open source. Daily also provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls.

According to TechCrunch, the acquisition will help Deepgram advance its real-time communication infrastructure and voice agents that combine models from different providers. The company also launched the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol developed with the Pipecat team to define context metadata, instructions for models and desired characteristics for responses. Daily co-founder Kwindla Kramer told TechCrunch that the engineering culture and Deepgram’s commitment to openness influenced the decision.

## Why it matters (editorial interpretation)

The acquisition brings Daily’s calling infrastructure together with Pipecat, which the companies say will remain open source, and could give developers a more integrated foundation for real-time voice agents. RCS also proposes a common convention for model context and instructions.

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