{"id":115779,"date":"2025-09-03T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:28:08","slug":"amazon-launches-lens-live-an-ai-powered-shopping-tool-for-use-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115779\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon is further investing in AI-powered shopping experiences with Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/retail\/search-image-amazon-lens-live-shopping-rufus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launch<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/retail\/how-to-use-amazon-lens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Lens Live<\/a>, a new AI-powered upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping feature that allows consumers to discover new products through visual search, similar to competitors like <a href=\"https:\/\/lens.google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Google Lens<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.pinterest.com\/en\/article\/pinterest-lens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pinterest Lens<\/a>. The tool will also integrate with Amazon\u2019s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, for product insights, the retailer notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lens Live will not replace Amazon\u2019s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens so you can point your phone at things you\u2019re seeing in the real world to see matching products in a swipeable carousel at the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The addition is one of several ways Amazon has been leveraging AI to help online shoppers. Over the past year or so, the company has also rolled out other features like its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/29\/amazon-brings-its-rufus-ai-shopping-assistant-to-more-international-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AI assistant Rufus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/09\/amazon-debuts-ai-powered-shopping-guides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AI-powered shopping guides<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/14\/amazon-taps-generative-ai-to-enhance-product-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AI-enhanced product reviews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/01\/08\/amazon-turns-to-ai-to-help-customers-find-clothes-that-fit-when-shopping-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AI tools for finding clothes that fit,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/21\/amazon-rolls-out-short-form-ai-powered-audio-product-summaries-for-select-items\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AI audio product summaries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/26\/amazon-launches-personalized-shopping-prompts-as-part-of-its-generative-ai-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">personalized shopping prompts<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/08\/amazons-newest-ai-tool-is-designed-to-enhance-product-listings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tools for merchants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lens Live also capitalizes on activities customers are already doing: comparison shopping while in retail stores out in the real world to see if Amazon has a better deal on the same or similar item.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"383\" width=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/download-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3041652\"\/>Image Credits:Amazon<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When using the new Lens Live feature, customers can tap on any item in their camera view to trigger the feature to focus on that product. If they find a match they like, they can add it to their shopping cart by tapping the (+) plus icon or tap the heart icon to save it to their wish list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feature is powered by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/aws\/openai-models-amazon-bedrock-sagemaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amazon SageMaker<\/a>\u00a0services, which allow machine learning models to be deployed at scale. It runs on AWS-managed Amazon OpenSearch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Amazon\u2019s AI-powered shopping assistant Rufus is available in the new experience, allowing customers to see AI-generated product summaries and suggested questions of conversational prompts they can ask to learn more about the item. According to Amazon, this lets shoppers do some quick product research and view product insights before making a purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lens Live feature is first launching on the Amazon Shopping app on iOS, initially for \u201ctens of millions\u201d of U.S. shoppers before rolling out to others in the U.S. The company didn\u2019t say whether it\u2019s going to expand to other global markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is further investing in AI-powered shopping experiences with Tuesday\u2019s launch of Lens Live, a new AI-powered upgrade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,971,64909,276,277,49,48,61,64910],"class_list":["post-115779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-lens","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-visual-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}