OpenAI Recasts ChatGPT Shopping Plan, Shifting Checkout to Partner Apps
TL;DR
OpenAI has scaled back its plan to enable shopping directly inside ChatGPT, instead directing checkouts to external apps that plug into ChatGPT after noting that only a small number of merchants used the in-chat checkout and that users weren’t consistently converting to purchases within the chatbot.
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