
GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.
Retell AI is a voice AI platform that handles customer service calls for businesses, and it now processes over 100 million monthly calls using OpenAI's models. The platform resolves more than 80% of customer requests through AI agents and has consumed 1 trillion OpenAI tokens, indicating significant scale. OpenAI's latest models, particularly GPT-6 Astra, ranked first in Retell's benchmark for instruction-following and help keep calls responsive during peak demand. Retell's engineers also use OpenAI's Codex tool to research code, build features, and debug issues more efficiently, contributing to the company achieving $1.6 million in annual revenue per employee despite rapid business growth.
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