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Summary
- Perplexity and PayPal partner for easy shopping, trip booking, and concert ticket buying in chat window.
- Perplexity Pro assists in finding items and allows quick PayPal checkout directly in chat.
- PayPal’s passkey feature ensures secure, quick transactions and signals shift towards AI-driven shopping experience.
Perplexity is stepping things up in a big way. Soon, users in the US will be able to book trips, shop for stuff, and even buy concert tickets right from a simple chat window. This is made possible by a new partnership between PayPal and the AI company. Thanks to this team-up, users can now pay for things instantly, right inside Perplexity’s chat interface. As Reuters put it, it’s a major move that brings shopping, planning, and payments into one smooth, conversational experience.
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Starting this summer, Perplexity Pro won’t just give you answers, but it’ll also handle things for you. Say you’re hunting for a new pair of sneakers, booking a weekend trip, or trying to score concert tickets. Just ask, and Perplexity will not only find what you need, but let you check out right there in the chat using PayPal.
PayPal is taking the wheel on pretty much everything, such as payments, making sure your order gets shipped, keeping tabs on where it is, and even sorting out the receipts. When you’re ready to lock in your purchase, it’ll be as quick as one tap.
That’s all thanks to PayPal’s passkey feature, which keeps your transactions secure and smooth without making you work for it. The promise is to make the whole checkout feel so natural, you’ll barely notice it happened.
AI does the heavy lifting
Perplexity is now your shopping agent
This upgrade is a sign we’re heading into a whole new era of how we shop. AI is no longer just your go-to for quick answers or product suggestions. Now, it’s rolling up its sleeves and actually doing the shopping for you. It’s being called “agentic commerce,” and it just means your AI isn’t sitting on the sidelines anymore. It finds what you need, handles the checkout, and wraps it all up.
With over 430 million active users worldwide, PayPal is literally everywhere. So plugging that kind of reach into Perplexity’s setup has the power to seriously shake up how we buy things online.
As AI keeps getting sharper, partnerships like this hint at where things are headed. We’re talking about digital assistants that don’t just tell you what to buy, but they’ll actually handle the whole process for you, start to finish. And having a familiar name like PayPal in the mix takes the edge off any weirdness around AI doing your shopping.
