Livekit Power tools in actual time, including Openai’s voice mode
The challenge facing many technology companies is to provide multimedia data-for example, the simultaneous audio and video-for actual time without interruption. Some companies build solutions at home, but they often require a lot of maintenance and maintenance.
To reduce the burden, Russians D’A and David Zhao created Livekit, an open source software package to build applications that can transfer audio and video in actual time. They launched the project in 2021 and soon suspected of having work capabilities.
It was good intuition. Livekit now has “more than 500 customers who pay and more than 100,000 developers across their cloud platform and open source products,” according to D’A. It also says that “the backbone of approximately 25 % of the 911 emergency call in the United States”, and is “used by the large airlines for the launch and flight control process, Skydio drone for police aircraft, and the teams in Oracle and Adobe in various government applications.”
Everything began when “big companies like Spotify, Oracle and Reddit were trying Livekit and asked us to host an hosted copy of the cloud from them,” said D’A Techcrunch. “Think of Cloudflare, but for the continuation of the media.” So, D’A, an early Twitter engineer, and Zhao, the former engineer of engineering in Motorola, decided to convert Livekit to starting and launching a managed version of the project: Livekit Cloud.
Today, Livekit, which also operates Openai’s Chatgpt, provides SDKS, tools and a application programming interface that allows developers and companies to build video and audio experiences. Startup Giants Tech Spotify, Meta and Microsoft, as well as AI and Speal and intolerance.
The current focus is the tongue of Jose, California, the company grows engineering and products – and it employs about 50 people – and expands its basic structure. Livekit also develops what D’AH “is a flexible agent account service”, which means that the product he can spread and expand its range automatically or down “agents” such as Chatbots.
“It turned out that Live Kate ultimately is” AIWS “-the provider of the cloud of artificial intelligence,” said D’A. “What Stripe did for payments, Livekit is doing for communications.”
Livekit financial data is very healthy in the meantime, as D’An. Last year, the company’s operating rate was more than $ 10 million. Recently, Livekit has raised $ 45 million in a round of chain B led by Altimeter, with the participation of Redpoint Ventures and Hanabi Capital.