Amazon's 'Buy for Me' AI will purchase stuff from third-party websites

Amazon has began testing one other AI-powered function referred to as "Buy for Me," which permits the e-commerce firm to make purchases for you from different web sites. Particularly, from the precise web site of a model you're trying trying up. The expertise is constructed into the Amazon app. If you seek for an merchandise from a selected model, you may even see a piece of outcomes labeled "Store model websites immediately" separate from the outcomes you'll get from Amazon and its third-party sellers. 

If you happen to click on on the "Purchase for Me" button beneath an merchandise within the separate outcomes part, you'll be taken to a product element web page proper contained in the Amazon app. The corporate says the web page will present related product data just like the product particulars in Amazon's personal listings. Amazon will buy the merchandise for you from the model's web site should you determine to undergo with the transaction. It makes use of agentic AI, a kind of AI that doesn't want human intervention, to supply your identify, deal with and cost particulars for the checkout course of. Your particulars are encrypted, Amazon says, and it won’t be able to see your earlier and future orders from manufacturers' web sites. You'll obtain a affirmation e mail from the model retailer itself on your buy, however you’ll be able to monitor your order throughout the Amazon app by the brand new Purchase for Me Orders tab within the Your Orders web page. 

The corporate advised us that it's not getting a fee out of your purchases made by the experimental function, nevertheless it didn't say if it was going to get a reduce from gross sales sooner or later. For now, the function continues to be in beta and can solely be accessible to a subset of shoppers on the US on its iOS and Amazon apps. The check will even solely function a restricted variety of model shops and merchandise for now. Only a few days in the past, Amazon additionally launched an AI-powered function referred to as "Interests," which may course of prompts in on daily basis language associated to your, properly, pursuits. You’ll be able to, as an illustration, sort in "Brewing instruments and devices for espresso lovers" to get related notifications for Amazon's offers and choices. 

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Replace, April 05, 2025, 09:25 AM ET: Amazon advised us it's not getting a fee from this experimental function. This story has been up to date to mirror that.

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