{"id":3730364,"date":"2026-05-13T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/?p=3730364"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:09:29","slug":"amazon-fuses-alexa-and-rufus-into-personalized-ai-shopping-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/amazon\/2026\/amazon-fuses-alexa-and-rufus-into-personalized-ai-shopping-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fuses Alexa+ and Rufus Into Personalized AI Shopping Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a> has announced a personalized AI assistant called Alexa for Shopping and will roll it out to all U.S. customers over the next week.<\/p><div\r\n\tid=\"article-paywall-overlay\"\r\n\tclass=\"d-none\"\r\n>\r\n\t<div id=\"article-paywall-content\" class=\"my-4\">\r\n\t\t\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f2699550-o1\" lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" 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experience is now available on Echo Show, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexa for Shopping combines Amazon\u2019s artificial intelligence shopping assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rufus\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=121214013011\">Rufus<\/a>, which 300 million customers used in 2025, and the company\u2019s voice assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/alexaplus\/dp\/B0CXRRF584\">Alexa+<\/a>, which is available on hundreds of millions of devices. This combination brings together the product expertise and Amazon shopping experience of Rufus and the personalized knowledge and context of Alexa+, the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this data, Alexa for Shopping can help users by finding products, comparing products, providing personalized recommendations, tracking prices, buying items at the user\u2019s target price, reordering items, and growing more personalized and helpful with each conversation, per the release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlexa for Shopping is like having an expert personal shopper who already knows you and remembers your preferences, your past purchases, and your conversations, and carries that knowledge and understanding of you across your phone, laptop and Echo devices,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rmmehta\">Rajiv Mehta<\/a>, vice president of conversational shopping at Amazon, said in the release. \u201cWhether you\u2019re comparing products, tracking a price drop, or continuing research you started yesterday, you don\u2019t have to start over.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"pymnt-1606282892\" class=\"pymnt-content pymnt-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 50px;\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"dianomi_context_script\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/js\/contextfeed.js\"><\/script> \r\n<div class=\"dianomi_context\" data-dianomi-context-id=\"4329\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon said in another Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/devices\/echo-show-alexa-plus-shopping\">press release<\/a> that with the full Amazon store experience is now available on Echo Show, users will see on that device the same visual experience they see on the Amazon website and app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the help of Alexa+, Echo Show users can compare products, check reviews and order by voice, touchscreen, or both, according to the release. 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