Russ d'Sa - LiveKit Blog

An open source stack for real-time multimodal AI

It feels impossible to keep up with everything happening in AI. There’s seemingly a new breakthrough every week. And even though we won’t have AGI in 2024, it’s interesting to consider what the world might look like when we do. In particular, the LiveKit team has been

A tale of two protocols: comparing WebRTC against HLS for live streaming

Do you remember the last time you watched a WWDC keynote? Did you watch it live? Did you read tweets about something you hadn't seen yet and wonder why? The answer is that Apple live streams these events using HLS, just like most other streaming video services, including

Live conversations with AI using ChatGPT and WebRTC

Jarvis. Samantha. Joi. HAL. Science fiction has long dreamt of anthropomorphized AI. Between GPT, Claude, Bard and other LLMs it seems like we’re on the precipice of this becoming reality. While we’ve enjoyed exchanging texts with ChatGPT, the LiveKit team thought it would be more fun to see

Decentraland's Catalyst: using WebRTC to interact in the metaverse

Every decentralized platform builder faces this problem: which components should be decentralized, and to what extent? The metaverse project Decentraland tackled this when their original peer-to-peer messaging transport hit performance bottlenecks, which limited their users’ ability to chat and interact in real time. In this post, we’ll walk through

The end of Participant Minute pricing

We made LiveKit so every developer in the world could have access to a modern, end-to-end WebRTC stack for free. The growth of the project and community around it has been as stunning as the things we’ve seen developers build with LiveKit. We believe real-time, multiplayer applications that help

Announcing LiveKit Cloud

I recently spoke with an engineer whose company transforms agricultural vehicles like tractors into self-driving, autonomous robots for tasks like mowing, spraying and weeding. Seriously, this is straight out of Interstellar: Sometimes a farmer needs to take control of the machine—often deployed in a rural area with spotty internet

Cloud 100 Rising Star

We're honored for LiveKit to be named a Cloud 100 Rising Star [https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2022/08/09/cloud-100-rising-stars-2022-meet-the-newest-cohort-of-cloud-innovators/?sh=324b4d1056dd] ! Each year, Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, compiles a list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the

LiveKit Community Day

The idea for LiveKit came when David and I tried adding real-time video to a side project. There just wasn't an open source, end-to-end stack that made working with WebRTC simple. Since our launch last July, the outpouring of love from builders and amazing projects using LiveKit has

Universal Egress

WebRTC–a low latency protocol with ubiquitous support across devices–is fantastic for last-mile delivery, but can't address every need a developer has when working with audio and video. An application may want to do things like store a session for future playback, relay a stream to a

Bringing Zoom's end-to-end optimizations to WebRTC

When we started LiveKit [https://github.com/livekit/livekit], our aim was to build an end-to-end, open source WebRTC stack accessible to all. After 20 months and nearly 1000 commits, we're releasing version 1.0 of LiveKit. This also includes 1.0 releases for these client SDKs: * JS

Launch Week! 🚀

For the last few months, we’ve been quietly working on a bunch of things. Following in the footsteps of other OSS projects, we’ve lined up a whole week’s worth of announcements! Every day next week at 10am PT, we’ll drop something new. Here’s a preview

The metaverse needs open infrastructure

Pre-pandemic, we did most things offline. 2020 brought a sea change: we worked, shopped, studied, cooked, watched movies, exercised, dated, and even got married over the Internet — in short, we now did most things online by default. While it looked like the Brady Bunch credits, the moment we collectively began

And…we’re Live(Kit)!

tl;dr We’re building Stripe for real-time communications In 2006, Apple started building webcams into their line of plastic, white MacBooks. Seeing a new opportunity for people to connect over the Internet, I went through YCombinator’s “Summer Founders Program” in 2007 and launched the first website for meeting