Current Examples and Platforms

The following sources inform the “Current Examples and Platforms” section of Chapter 5: AI Shopping Agents. They document live deployments and infrastructure announcements from Perplexity, Amazon, Walmart, Google, PayPal, and others working on agentic commerce.

1. Shop Like a Pro: Perplexity’s New AI-Powered Shopping Assistant (Perplexity Blog)
2. Amazon Announces Rufus, a New Generative AI-Powered Shopping Assistant (About Amazon)
3. Walmart and Amazon Are Rolling Out AI Shopping Assistants for Holiday 2024 (Forbes)
4. Google Takes Agentic Retail into Chat (Payments Dive)
5. Introducing an Agentic Commerce Solution for Merchants from PayPal and Google (Google Cloud Blog)
6. PayPal’s Agentic Commerce Expansion (Yahoo Finance)