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720 Lowe’s Puts OpenAI-Powered Voice Assistant on the Store Floor

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Jon Victor @ The Information · 06/05/2025 13:53 EDT

Lowe’s Puts OpenAI-Powered Voice Assistant on the Store Floor

It’s not always easy for customers of Lowe’s Home Improvement to locate employees when they need to ask for help inside its cavernous facilities. But the retailer is at least giving its employees access to artificial intelligence so they can be a lot more helpful in answering questions when customers do track them down.Over the last year, the company has used models from OpenAI to develop a voice and text app to answer employees’ questions on selling points for products or key differences between similar it

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