OpenAI & Perplexity Enter Holiday Shopping Race

[mendez]

OpenAI and Perplexity have launched AI-powered shopping tools ahead of the holiday surge, letting users research and compare products directly inside their chatbots. But niche players like Onton and Daydream argue that specialized, domain-focused datasets still give vertical AI shopping startups a clear edge.

[Nahid Hossen]

Big AI players joining the holiday race will reshape how people discover products.