PayPal honey to integrate with chat and other AI for shopping assistance

This month after forming a team on Agentic Commerce with Google, the payment veteran Payal announced on Tuesday that he was connecting new facilities. PayPal Honey Browser Extension. Features will provide AI chatbot users who are doing research on items they want to buy, honey product recommendations, pricing and access to deals.

When the users ask their favorite AI Chatbot questions related to shopping, the extension of Paple Honey will display links to products that recommend AI chatbot, as well as real -time pricing, business options and offers, say Paple. The system can also identify that when AI’s own recommendations may have left major retailers and take the consumer to the surface.

Facilities are designed to help consumers compare pricing and promote the sales of a merchant in addition to individual offers, peepal notes.

Agentic shopping integration is designed as AI Agnostic, Paypal told Techcrunch, but will initially work to follow more to work with Openai’s chatgpt.

The company says that the new features are part of the comprehensive rollout of the agent commerce initiative, including Google partnership, A. Agentic commerce offerA remote Mcp server, Agent toolkitAs well as other, small deals – such as offer to use the premium service of perplexity for one year for free, and free access to its new comets browser.

Of course, AI provider will be a competitive for products such as honey, as they proceed to make products recommendations and connect users directly with traders. For example, yesterday Openai announced a plan to take Amazon and Google with its own agent shopping systems, including the “instant checkout” feature.

While the system of Openai initially supports Etsy with “soon” plans for shopfy traders, it is a sign of what is to come in the AI ​​era. Instead of browsing the web or Amazon while looking for products and recommendations, users can start their shopping research in AI Chatbot instead of only web browsing, where Honey had earlier traction, such new products were required.

AI features are starting quite after Bit of bad press For honey. A YouTuber accused the company of stealing money from the affected to take credit for sale, which was operated by the creators. The revelation has also led some cases on the matter.