avatarin builds 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime
avatarin used OpenAI's GPT-Realtime to create a 24/7 multilingual retail agent for Yamada Denki. Within two weeks, 30,000 shoppers used it, and 92% of survey responses were positive.
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