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But first, Commerce Platform Shopify is releasing new features for its winter edition rollout,

including an AI-powered media editor to enhance product images, improved semantic search,

and a better way for merchants to showcase different variants of a product.

Many companies including Meta, Google, and Amazon have allowed advertisers to generate backgrounds

using generative AI since last year.

Similarly, Shopify wants to help merchants edit their product images backgrounds and scenes using this tech.

In the Magic Media Editor, merchants can select a type from seven styles, minimal, vibrant,

natural urban, regged, refined, and surreal, or type a prompt to generate a new background.

Apart from this, merchants can match an image's background style with an existing image

to maintain brand consistency. The tool can also remove unwanted backgrounds from the images.

Shopify has experimented with generative AI-based tools for merchants in the past.

Last June, it launched the Sidekickbot to help merchants navigate different parts of the platform.

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