Daily (Pipecat)

3 releases covered on ThursdAI · daily.co ↗

April 2026

Daily (Pipecat)
Products & AppsOpen weights

Gradient Bang

Gradient Bang: first massively multiplayer fully LLM-driven voice game

Kwindla Kramer's 'side project that broke containment' is a fully LLM-driven multiplayer voice-based space game inspired by BBS-era Trade Wars, built on a new Pipecat Sub-Agents library with a class-based event bus that works locally and over the network. A Deepgram plus GPT-4.1 voice agent always responds in under 1.5 seconds while GPT-5.2 medium-thinking task agents do the work, and the React frontend is rendered from LLM-generated JSON as dynamic UI. The team also open-sourced GB Benchmarks for evaluating agent task execution.

December 2025

Daily (Pipecat)
New ModelsOpen weights

Smart Turn Detection

Daily ships smart turn detection for voice agents

Kwindla's Daily.co shipped smart turn detection during Q2, an open model that helps voice agents know when a speaker has actually finished talking. It landed in the quarter when voice agents first got attention outside the builder bubble.

April 2025

Daily (Pipecat)
New ModelsOpen weights

Smart-Turn VAD

Pipecat releases Smart-Turn, an open source semantic VAD model

The Pipecat team (from Daily) released Smart-Turn, an open source semantic voice activity detection model that understands when a speaker has actually finished their turn rather than just detecting silence. Kwindla Kramer joined the show to break down how semantic VAD makes voice agent conversations feel far more natural, with a community training effort at turn-training.pipecat.ai.