LiveKit is an open source developer platform for building real-time voice, video, and physical AI agent applications. Founded in 2021, the company provides infrastructure that enables developers to integrate real-time communication capabilities into their products. Its platform evolved from an initial open source media server and SDKs into a comprehensive suite for multimodal AI development.
The company's technology operates at significant scale, facilitating billions of calls annually and serving over 200,000 developers and teams. Its platform powers OpenAI's ChatGPT voice mode, demonstrating its role as critical infrastructure in the AI ecosystem. LiveKit's technical domains span real-time communication, voice AI, video AI, multimodal AI, and developer infrastructure.
LiveKit's customers include Fortune 500 companies across the AI and robotics sectors. The company maintains its roots as an open source project, with its core platform available publicly for developers building real-time applications.
