Shopify merchants’ products can now be discovered on artificial intelligence (AI) platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot, after the Canadian e-commerce giant announced agentic storefronts in its latest update.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says the company is making every Shopify store “agent-ready by default.”

The winte r edition of the biannual Shopify Editions newsletter, called “the RenAIssance edition,” was released Wednesday. It contains over 150 product updates across the platform, many focusing on integrating and improving AI features for sellers. This includes agentic storefronts–an overhaul to Shopify’s AI-powered assistant Sidekick–and automations like a program to send an email to staff once a certain inventory level is reached.

Building on Shopify’s early-access

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