Avatarin Built a 24/7 Retail Agent on GPT-4 Realtime, Reaching 30K Shoppers in Two Weeks
The ANA Holdings spinout deployed voice-first customer service at Yamada Denki, proving multimodal real-time models can replace human sales expertise at scale.
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ElevenLabs Clears $500M ARR as BlackRock, Telecoms, and Celebrities Back Its $11B Series D
ElevenLabs reveals its complete $500M Series D investor roster — including BlackRock and Deutsche Telekom — as ARR clears $500 million.
Amazon Turns Product Pages Into Two-Way Audio Conversations
Amazon's new 'Join the Chat' feature lets shoppers direct real-time AI-narrated answers on product pages by text or voice.