LiveKit provides the infrastructure layer that powers real-time audio, video, and physical AI agent applications. Founded in 2021 as an open-source project, the platform has evolved into a comprehensive developer platform used by over 200,000 developers and teams to build voice, video, and multimodal AI interactions. The infrastructure facilitates billions of calls annually and underpins applications ranging from cutting-edge AI labs to Fortune 500 enterprises.
The platform enables seamless real-time interactions across web, mobile, and embedded devices, with particular strength in supporting physical AI agents and multimodal interactions. LiveKit serves as the underlying infrastructure for OpenAI's ChatGPT voice mode, demonstrating its capability at scale. The core offering comprises a media server, software development kits, and a developer platform designed specifically to address the technical complexity of building real-time applications.
The company was founded to address a perceived gap in developer infrastructure for real-time communications and AI interactions. Its positioning centres on making real-time application development significantly more accessible whilst establishing itself as the default infrastructure layer for AI systems that must interact with the physical world in real time.
