Voice agents have a moment: Rime Prism, Deepgram buys Daily, Phonic tops GPT-Live
rdesh26 · x · 2026-10-30
A busy stretch for voice agents:
- Rime launched Prism; Cartesia released "managed agents".
- ElevenLabs voice agents can now call tools.
- Deepgram acquired Daily, the team behind Pipecat; Inworld acquired UltraVox.
- Phonic shipped a model claimed to outperform GPT-Live.
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