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Perplexity, PayPal partner to provide easy payment checkouts to users

The deal will strengthen Perplexity's agentic commerce offering, a rapidly growing trend where AI agents not only help consumers with shopping but also handle transactions for them. Through the partnership, users will be able to check out instantly with PayPal or Venmo when they ask Perplexity Pro to find products, book travel or buy tickets, starting this summer in the United States. The entire process, from payment to invoicing, will occur behind the scenes through PayPal's account linking, which could "eliminate the need for passwords" and "streamline the experience to a single user query or click", the AI startup said.