How AI Agents Could Change Shopping Forever, w/ Chi Zhang

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential impact of AI agents on the future of online shopping with guest Chi Zhang.

What happens when your next customer is not a person, but an AI agent shopping on their behalf? The way we buy things online may be about to change a lot faster than most people realize. In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Chi Zhang, cofounder and CEO of Kite, about agentic commerce and the infrastructure that could make AI agents true economic actors instead of just helpful assistants. We explore what it means to let an agent not only research flights, groceries, APIs, or consumer go...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Wilser

Guest: Chi Zhang

Topics covered

• AI agents
• shopping
• agentic commerce
• online buying
• economic actors

Keywords

• AI agents
• shopping
• agentic commerce
• Kite
• online buying
• economic actors

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kite

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