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Retell Scales to 100M Calls as OpenAI Powers its Lean Machine
Retell runs 100 million voice calls a month and logs $1.6M in ARR per worker, proving voice AI prints cash when you keep payroll razor-thin.
Devon Achebe · 5d ago · 4 min read
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OpenAI's Realtime Voice Update Just Wiped Out The Wrapper Startups
OpenAI cut out the middleman in voice AI. If your entire startup was three APIs stitched together with duct tape and a markup, your business model just vanished.
Nina Falco · Sep 17, 2026 · 5 min read
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