Amazon Launches Rufus, an AI Assistant in Its Shopping App

Amazon hasaddedan AI assistant tool called Rufus to its shopping platform. The AI is trained on Amazon’s extensive catalog of products and information sourced from the internet. Itworks like any other AI chatbot, but it’s integrated right inside the Amazon app. You can ask it questions about products, and shopping needs, compare various items, discover new products, and much more.

Rufus Can Help You Find the Right Product on Amazon

Amazon is currently launching Rufus in beta to asmall subset of customers in the US only. The e-commerce giant says Rufus will be available to more US customers over the coming weeks. Amazon has a huge public dataset from its shopping app to make a custom LLM that can cater to the personalized needs of customers.

Besides product catalogs, the company has also usedcustomer reviews and community Q&Asto build the Rufus AI chatbot for Amazon. You can ask Rufus general questions like, “What should I consider before buying a headphone”, “What do I need for hiking to a remote mountain”, or specific ones like “Show me dinosaur toys for a 5-year-old kid”. It also considers the context of a product you are viewing and answers accordingly.

To get started, update the Amazon app and start typing yourquestion in the search bardirectly. You can also tap on the star-like symbol at the bottom to launch Rufus in the Amazon shopping app. It’s worth mentioning that Amazon started AI-generated review highlights last year and it’s already live in most regions. Now, with the Rufus AI shopping assistant, Amazon is ready to fully integrate generative AI capabilities into its shopping app.

So what do you think about Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant? Are you still going to useChatGPT,Microsoft Copilot, orBardfor product recommendation and AI shopping assistance? Let us know in the comment section below.

Arjun Sha

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