As AI Agents Start Shopping, Kindred Is Quietly Powering the Infrastructure Behind the Curtain
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OpenAI is enhancing ChatGPT with integrated shopping capabilities, marking a shift in digital commerce towards AI-driven transactions. Kindred has introduced the Global Merchant dataset, a comprehensive database designed to facilitate AI agents' execution of real-world commerce tasks like price comparison and purchase completion. This dataset boasts over 4 million active deal links and details about over 100,000 merchants, structured for seamless interaction with various AI technologies. With features supporting retrieval-augmented generation, it is positioned as the essential data source for AI-driven shopping and transactional intelligence, providing a foundational infrastructure for developers.
Kindred has launched the Global Merchant dataset—an open resource that enables AI agents to act autonomously in digital commerce, supporting transactions with reliable, live data.
The dataset includes over 4 million deal links and merchant data, structured for fast execution by LLMs and AI, helping developers create effective transaction interfaces.
As LLMs begin to autonomously transact, having clean and monetizable merchant data is essential; Kindred’s Global Merchant dataset fills that vital need.
Kindred aims to provide the foundational data infrastructure for AI agents, enabling them to create consumer experiences and commerce layers without being a storefront.
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