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Meta Just Turned 3.5B Users Into a Shopping Surface
Meta spent the last year testing AI shopping in quiet pilots. This week it stopped testing. On June 15 it put AI-generated search inside Facebook, and a day later at Cannes Lions it shipped a full commerce stack: live shopping ads, virtual-card checkout with Mastercard and Visa, and product data feeding a new AI Shopping mode. The fourth major AI shopping surface just went live, and it reaches 3.5 billion people. TL;DR: Meta added AI Mode search to Facebook on June 15 and unveiled live
Meta Joins the AI Shopping Race. That Makes Five Platforms Retailers Need to Feed.
Bloomberg reported on March 3 that Meta is testing an AI-powered shopping research tool inside Meta AI. The feature shows product carousels with pricing, brand information, and links to merchant websites. No native checkout - just referral links, similar to how Google Shopping has worked for years. Forrester analyst Sucharita Kodali called it "a copycat move," and she's right. But that doesn't make it irrelevant. Count the major AI shopping surfaces retailers now need to think about: ChatGPT,