The ecommerce world is entering a new phase and this shift is faster than ever. Shopify and Liquid AI have announced a multi-year partnership built to transform how you search, browse and shop online. At Digital Perfection, we see this collaboration as a turning point for high speed, high-quality AI in ecommerce. It pushes the boundaries of what real time shopping experiences should feel like.
Shopify has signed a multi-million-dollar agreement to license Liquid AI’s flagship Liquid Foundation Models. These LFMs support search and other accuracy-sensitive workflows where speed and quality matter. This deal expands Shopify’s broader AI strategy, which aims to give you faster, smarter shopping tools across all storefronts.
At Digital Perfection, we believe this partnership sets a new benchmark for ecommerce performance. It brings AI’s future closer to your everyday shopping experience.
The first production deployment is now live. Shopify’s new Liquid AI-powered search model delivers results in under 20 milliseconds. This speed represents a major leap, especially when you shop on busy storefronts.
Liquid AI designed these models to deliver low-latency, multimodal, and quality-preserving inference. In fact, versions with nearly 50% fewer parameters have outperformed larger models like Qwen3, Gemma3, and Llama 3. They also run two to ten times faster, making real-time experiences far more reliable.
This is exactly the type of innovation we at Digital Perfection love to analyze. Sub-20ms inference is rare, and achieving it at scale signals a major technical milestone.
Beyond search, Shopify and Liquid AI have co-developed a new generative recommender system. It uses Liquid AI’s novel HSTU architecture. During controlled tests, it outperformed Shopify’s previous stack by delivering more accurate suggestions and stronger conversion rates.
For you, this means you see better product matches, smarter recommendations, and a more intuitive shopping flow.
Ramin Hasani, CEO of Liquid AI, highlighted an essential point. Recommendation systems guide decision-making in finance, healthcare, and ecommerce. They must be efficient, reliable, and fast. Shopify helped validate these models at scale.
Shopify supports 118 of North America’s Top 2000 online retailers. These retailers generated more than $10.4 billion in web sales last year. With this partnership, Shopify equips merchants with stronger AI tools that power real behaviour and measurable results.
Search becomes faster. Recommendations become more relevant. Browsing feels more natural. You receive the right product at the right moment.
At Digital Perfection, we view this advancement as a major opportunity for merchants to elevate customer satisfaction. The speed alone changes what shoppers expect from ecommerce.
This partnership also includes ongoing R&D, a shared roadmap, and plans for future multimodal models. Both companies are exploring new use cases like customer-profile optimization, product classification, and AI agents.
Additionally, AI agents are quickly becoming the next frontier. They can compare products, surface deals, and even complete purchases. Studies already show six in ten U.S. consumers expect to use AI shopping agents within the next year.
This trend aligns with Shopify’s shift from “search to conversation.” Tools like Shopify’s Commerce for Agents toolkit support Catalog, Universal Cart, and Checkout Kit. Furthermore, these tools let third-party agents build carts and complete checkouts without sending you to a storefront. Digital Perfection believes agentic commerce will redefine the customer journey. It will let you shop through conversations, not pages.
Shopify’s expansion into advanced AI is not slowing down. Earlier this year, the company partnered with OpenAI for “Instant Checkout,” which enables purchases directly inside ChatGPT conversations. Major brands like Glossier and SKIMS are already testing the feature.
Additionally, consumer behavior reflects this shift. AI-driven traffic on Shopify has risen sevenfold since January. Orders generated from AI-powered searches have increased by 1,100%. During peak shopping seasons, 64% of shoppers expect to use AI at some point.
Shopify’s President Harley Finkelstein emphasized a clear message. The company aims to lay the foundation for agentic commerce. Their business model benefits when merchants succeed, making AI-driven tools essential for growth.
As this partnership evolves, Shopify and Liquid AI will continue testing more multimodal systems designed for real-time ecommerce tasks. These include personalized ranking, retrieval-augmented generation, and session-aware recommendations.
The collaboration sets a new technical standard. It blends speed, precision, and reliability in ways that redefine what ecommerce platforms can achieve. And naturally, at Digital Perfection, we see this as a major step toward hyper-fast, AI-powered shopping experiences.
But this game-changing update won’t help you if your Shopify store feels stuck, your sales aren’t moving, or leads seem impossible to capture. When giants like Shopify and Liquid AI are leveling up the game, there’s no reason for you to stay behind. Connect with Digital Perfection for a free consultation — because no matter where you’re starting, we’re here to fuel your success.
The ecommerce world is entering a new phase and this shift is faster than ever. Shopify and Liquid AI have announced a multi-year partnership built to transform how you search, browse and shop online. At Digital Perfection, we see this collaboration as a turning point for high speed, high-quality AI in ecommerce. It pushes the boundaries of what real time shopping experiences should feel like.
Shopify has signed a multi-million-dollar agreement to license Liquid AI’s flagship Liquid Foundation Models. These LFMs support search and other accuracy-sensitive workflows where speed and quality matter. This deal expands Shopify’s broader AI strategy, which aims to give you faster, smarter shopping tools across all storefronts.
At Digital Perfection, we believe this partnership sets a new benchmark for ecommerce performance. It brings AI’s future closer to your everyday shopping experience.
The first production deployment is now live. Shopify’s new Liquid AI-powered search model delivers results in under 20 milliseconds. This speed represents a major leap, especially when you shop on busy storefronts.
Liquid AI designed these models to deliver low-latency, multimodal, and quality-preserving inference. In fact, versions with nearly 50% fewer parameters have outperformed larger models like Qwen3, Gemma3, and Llama 3. They also run two to ten times faster, making real-time experiences far more reliable.
This is exactly the type of innovation we at Digital Perfection love to analyze. Sub-20ms inference is rare, and achieving it at scale signals a major technical milestone.
Beyond search, Shopify and Liquid AI have co-developed a new generative recommender system. It uses Liquid AI’s novel HSTU architecture. During controlled tests, it outperformed Shopify’s previous stack by delivering more accurate suggestions and stronger conversion rates.
For you, this means you see better product matches, smarter recommendations, and a more intuitive shopping flow.
Ramin Hasani, CEO of Liquid AI, highlighted an essential point. Recommendation systems guide decision-making in finance, healthcare, and ecommerce. They must be efficient, reliable, and fast. Shopify helped validate these models at scale.
Shopify supports 118 of North America’s Top 2000 online retailers. These retailers generated more than $10.4 billion in web sales last year. With this partnership, Shopify equips merchants with stronger AI tools that power real behaviour and measurable results.
Search becomes faster. Recommendations become more relevant. Browsing feels more natural. You receive the right product at the right moment.
At Digital Perfection, we view this advancement as a major opportunity for merchants to elevate customer satisfaction. The speed alone changes what shoppers expect from ecommerce.
This partnership also includes ongoing R&D, a shared roadmap, and plans for future multimodal models. Both companies are exploring new use cases like customer-profile optimization, product classification, and AI agents.
Additionally, AI agents are quickly becoming the next frontier. They can compare products, surface deals, and even complete purchases. Studies already show six in ten U.S. consumers expect to use AI shopping agents within the next year.
This trend aligns with Shopify’s shift from “search to conversation.” Tools like Shopify’s Commerce for Agents toolkit support Catalog, Universal Cart, and Checkout Kit. Furthermore, these tools let third-party agents build carts and complete checkouts without sending you to a storefront. Digital Perfection believes agentic commerce will redefine the customer journey. It will let you shop through conversations, not pages.
Shopify’s expansion into advanced AI is not slowing down. Earlier this year, the company partnered with OpenAI for “Instant Checkout,” which enables purchases directly inside ChatGPT conversations. Major brands like Glossier and SKIMS are already testing the feature.
Additionally, consumer behavior reflects this shift. AI-driven traffic on Shopify has risen sevenfold since January. Orders generated from AI-powered searches have increased by 1,100%. During peak shopping seasons, 64% of shoppers expect to use AI at some point.
Shopify’s President Harley Finkelstein emphasized a clear message. The company aims to lay the foundation for agentic commerce. Their business model benefits when merchants succeed, making AI-driven tools essential for growth.
As this partnership evolves, Shopify and Liquid AI will continue testing more multimodal systems designed for real-time ecommerce tasks. These include personalized ranking, retrieval-augmented generation, and session-aware recommendations.
The collaboration sets a new technical standard. It blends speed, precision, and reliability in ways that redefine what ecommerce platforms can achieve. And naturally, at Digital Perfection, we see this as a major step toward hyper-fast, AI-powered shopping experiences.
But this game-changing update won’t help you if your Shopify store feels stuck, your sales aren’t moving, or leads seem impossible to capture. When giants like Shopify and Liquid AI are leveling up the game, there’s no reason for you to stay behind. Connect with Digital Perfection for a free consultation — because no matter where you’re starting, we’re here to fuel your success.
