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How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT Realtime

How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT Realtime. avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

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According to openai.com, How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT Realtime.

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

The signal matters because AI capabilities are moving into more specific product, infrastructure, or business workflows.

The next things to watch are availability, pricing or access limits, and whether the update creates a measurable workflow change for builders or enterprise users.

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This update reflects the continued movement of AI capabilities into concrete product, platform, and industry contexts.

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