SoundHound closes LivePerson acquisition

SoundHound AI completed its LivePerson acquisition with a combined customer base including 25 Fortune 100 companies and an IP portfolio of more than 750 patents, while targeting over $500 million in future revenue from existing customers, the closing release says. The deal folds LivePerson’s digital messaging into SoundHound’s OASYS voice-and-agent platform across voice, web, mobile, SMS, and social channels; the $500 million figure is management’s target, not booked revenue. Builders evaluating contact-center agents should test containment, migration cost, and channel consistency against the product-safety case for circuit breakers in chatbot interactions.