On October 8, LiveKit published a customer story about Serve AI migrating an AI phone agent to LiveKit after testing it against about 100 production calls using Agent Simulations. Serve reported a 15% increase in containment and estimated an additional $320,000 in annual savings for the end customer.

On October 8, LiveKit announced that Agent Simulations was generally available for all LiveKit Cloud projects. The feature lets developers run simulated conversations to test voice agents and identify failures before deployment.

Deepgram announced that it was a launch partner in LiveKit’s Startup Program. Pre-Series A teams in the program can receive $1,000 in Deepgram credits, available natively through LiveKit Inference.

LiveKit announced that it acquired infrastructure company Loophole Labs to improve how quickly its AI agents start and handle bursts in demand. Loophole Labs' eight-person engineering team, led by founder and CEO Shivansh Vij, is joining LiveKit; the financial terms were not disclosed.

LiveKit launched Private Links, which let LiveKit-hosted agents make secure requests to resources inside a customer's cloud network through a managed, encrypted tunnel. The feature avoids exposing public IPs or requiring customers to maintain inbound firewall rules or VPN infrastructure, and was available for US- and EU-deployed agents on LiveKit Cloud.

Gradium TTS became available through LiveKit Inference on September 9, allowing LiveKit voice agents to use Gradium's text-to-speech model without a separate Gradium account, API key, or bill. The integration supports conversational use cases, including voice cloning and low-latency speech generation.

LiveKit published a product announcement for testing voice agents with non-production deployments. The company’s official blog listing dates the post September 2, 2026, but the available announcement excerpt does not provide further details about functionality or commercial availability.

LiveKit announced general availability of LiveKit Connectors, linking voice agents to Twilio Programmable Voice and WhatsApp Business Calling. The connectors route calls from those services into LiveKit rooms as regular participants, allowing existing agent logic to run without additional telephony infrastructure.

LiveKit made Speechmatics’ Linden speech-to-text model available through LiveKit Inference. Developers can switch to Linden through the UI or code in under a minute, without a separate Speechmatics API key, account, or invoice; LiveKit handles routing, billing, and turn detection.

LiveKit announced that Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live is available in LiveKit Agents and can be used through LiveKit Inference. The real-time transcription model is designed for alphanumeric and domain-specific vocabulary, multilingual speech, and code-switching.

Avea Robotics was listed as a participant in the Trossen Robotics, Proprio Robotics, and LiveKit Partner Night in San Francisco on August 27, 2026. The event description says the organizers were teaming up with Avea Robotics for the evening.

LiveKit announced a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation. The round included Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Altimeter, and Redpoint Ventures.

LiveKit and xAI introduced the Grok Voice Agent API, a low-latency speech-to-speech realtime model designed for two-way voice interactions and compatible with OpenAI’s Realtime API.

LiveKit launched Phone Numbers, its first-party telephony service for connecting voice agents directly to the phone network. The service supports purchasing and managing phone numbers for voice applications.

LiveKit described LiveKit Cloud’s agent scheduler for long-lived sessions. The scheduler places sessions using effective load, locality, and CPU/GPU considerations rather than connection count alone.