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OpenAI Expands ChatGPT with Ad-Free Shopping Features

The new update allows users worldwide to receive personalized product recommendations with images, reviews, and direct purchase links, enhancing ChatGPT's role as a competitor to traditional search engines.

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Overview

  • ChatGPT's enhanced shopping feature provides tailored recommendations across fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics, using structured metadata from third-party sources.
  • Users can access visual product details, pricing comparisons, and direct links to merchant websites, but transactions are completed externally, not within ChatGPT.
  • The ad-free feature is available globally to all user tiers, including Free, Plus, Pro, and logged-out users, with the rollout expected to complete within days.
  • ChatGPT's shopping results are not influenced by advertisements or commissions, with OpenAI emphasizing independent curation based on user preferences and online reviews.
  • Memory-based personalization is planned for future updates, but privacy regulations delay its availability in the EEA, UK, and select European countries.