Sellers spent 10 minutes researching and drafting listings. AI now generates them from a photo, cutting the work to seconds.
A C2C marketplace with over 20 million monthly active users, serving one in five people in Japan.
Creating product listings was a tedious manual process that took sellers 5 to 10 minutes per item to research and draft. Casual users often lacked...
“Customer experience is at the heart of what we are doing and what we care about. One in five people in Japan use our service on a monthly basis. Gen AI allows us to bring entirely new experiences to these users. And, building on top of Google Cloud gives us the confidence that these experiences will work as expected at the scale we need them to work.”
Community-powered marketplace for buying and selling new and used items.
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