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Perplexity Launches AI Shopping Assistant with PayPal Integration for US Users

By

Elissa Welle

6mo ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

Perplexity has launched a free AI-powered shopping assistant for US users, similar to features recently added by OpenAI and Google. The AI assistant helps users find products through conversational queries, displays recommendations with specs and reviews in card format, and allows direct purchases through PayPal integration with supported merchants. The launch is timed for the holiday shopping season.

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Perplexity is ramping up its AI shopping experience going into the holiday season, just like OpenAI and Google
Its AI assistant looks similar to what we've seen from ChatGPT's shopping research, as users type in what they're looking for and refine the results with follow-up questions
The recommended products show up as cards with specs and reviews, and users can buy products directly through Perplexity from merchants that support PayPal
Perplexity's AI chatbot is adding a new shopping assistant, similar to features recently added for Google Gemini and ChatGPT
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Perplexity’s AI chatbot is adding a new shopping assistant, similar to features recently added for Google Gemini and ChatGPT, that can recommend products and let you buy them directly via PayPal.

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