Scaling curation for 90M buyers was impossible. Now, experts build seed collections and Vertex AI expands them into millions of custom feeds.
A global marketplace for unique and creative goods connects 90 million buyers with 5 million sellers and an inventory of over 130 million items.
With such a vast catalog, matching buyers to unique products was difficult, especially when users lacked specific search intent. Human experts could...
“There's only one marketplace where you know you're buying from another real person on the other side, and that's Etsy. We're not trying to replace that human connection. We want to amplify and scale that connection with AI.”
Online marketplace for handmade, vintage, and creative goods.
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