Early tests show Perplexity's AI shopping agent, which lets users make purchases in its app, sometimes takes hours to process purchases or fails to buy items
Google, Amazon Dominance Set For Disruption? Bluesky: @martinsfp : “You're also not actually buying anything... You're paying Perplexity the exact amount that item costs, giving its AI agent instructions to buy a specific item... Some time later, perhaps hours, the agent executes that task, or at least tries to” [embedded post] Max Zeff / @mzeff : I wrote a breakdown of the race to create AI shopping agents. — Perplexity is partnering with Stripe to let AI agents make payments. Rabbit is teaching AI agents to use the front end of websites. — And OpenAI and Google could enter the race in 2025, — In short: it's on. …