LiveKit’s tools power real-time communications, including OpenAI’s Voice Mode

A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video — to users in real time without interruptions. Some firms build solutions in-house, but these often require a lot of upkeep and maintenance. To ease the burden, Russ d’Sa and David Zhao created LiveKit, an open-source software package for building apps that can transmit real-time audio and video. They launched the project in 2021 and soon suspected it had business potential. It was a good hunch. LiveKit now has “more than 500 paying customers and over 100,000 developers across its cloud platform and open source products,” according to d’Sa. He also says it’s the “backbone for roughly 25% of 911 emergency calls in the U.S.” and “used by large aerospace companies for launch and flight observation, Skydio for police drones teleoperation, and teams at Oracle and Adobe in various government applications.” It all started when “large companies like Spotify, Oracle, ... Read full article.