LiveKit, founded in 2021, is an open source developer platform focused on building real-time voice, video, and physical AI agent applications. The platform provides infrastructure for real-time communications, media servers, and AI-driven audio and video processing, serving developers working across domains including voice AI, video AI, and physical AI agents.
The company's technology is used by AI labs, robotics labs, and enterprise technology teams. According to the company, the LiveKit platform powers over 200,000 developers and teams, facilitating billions of calls annually. The platform's open source origins remain central to its development model.
LiveKit's core technical areas include real-time communications, AI infrastructure, and media server engineering. The platform is designed to support applications ranging from conversational AI interfaces to autonomous agents requiring low-latency audio and video streaming.
