Starting next year, PayPal’s payment technology will be embedded in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, where users can make purchases within the AI chatbot using their PayPal wallets.

PayPal will also bring its merchants into OpenAI’s burgeoning commerce offering and help merchants process payments through OpenAI’s checkout tools, the companies announced Tuesday.

The arrangement is expected to help retailers of various sizes sell their products to ChatGPT’s 800 million active weekly users. PayPal claims to have 434 million active customer and merchant accounts.

The collaboration is enabled by OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol, an open-source spec that allows AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users.

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