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Waddle Wins the Most AGI Potential Award at the 2024 OpenAI Matching Day
Waddle has received the Most AGI Potential Award from OpenAI. Through its collaboration with OpenAI, Waddle is taking another step toward becoming a global AI solution.
Waddle (CEO: Jihyuk Park) was selected as one of the 10 final collaboration start-ups at the K-Startup & OpenAI Matching Day in US, held at OpenAI’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. The company was also recognized as one of the Top 3 winners, receiving the Most AGI Potential Award. 🎉
The shopping-agent work recognized in 2024
During the event, which included presentation evaluations by OpenAI executives, a Q&A session with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, expert mentoring, and networking, Waddle introduced Gentoo, its AI shopping agent that recommends products to customers while helping merchants gain valuable customer insights.
Waddle received high recognition for successfully building a conversational AI agent for real-world shopping experiences using OpenAI’s APIs.
The award recognized Waddle’s shopping-agent work at the 2024 event. This announcement reflects Gentoo’s product at that time. For its current focus on merchant growth, explore the Shopify store optimization guide.
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From the 2024 award to the 2025 hackathon
Waddle later won first place at the OpenAI GPT-5 Hackathon in August 2025. That announcement describes a separate digital-clone and sales-strategy simulation project.
