Acquisition
Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure (opens techcrunch.com)
Deepgram is buying Daily, the company behind Pipecat, to deepen its real-time voice and video infrastructure.
LaunchReported
Baseten’s joey-1 makes AI decisions for a penny per million tokens
Context: Baseten's joey-1 is a 2B open-weights decision model that returns an answer and a probability; Baseten says it costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms.
From The Next Web: Baseten released joey-1, a 2B open-weights “decision model” that returns an answer and a probability rather than text. It costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms, Baseten says. It joins the larger mammoth-1 and elephant-1 launched last week.
- Source
- The Next Web (thenextweb.com)
- Published
- First seen here
- Edition
- Thursday, October 29, 2026, ranked 30
- Status
- A publication reported this; the company may not have confirmed it.
- Why it’s here
- A very cheap open-weights model for yes/no decisions, useful for automating routine checks.
- Topics
- AI, Open source, Infrastructure
