Dalet Labs is launching what it calls the first Generative Commerce app, an iOS experience where every object in a generated scene is a real product you can buy. The pitch is aimed at shoppers who browse to figure out what they want rather than searching for something specific, with the app serving as a visual feed that surfaces styles, products, and combinations a user might not have thought to look up on their own. Early access is invite only through the company's website, which positions this launch as the first consumer-facing output from a team that has been working in stealth on generative models for retail discovery.
Under the hood, the company is publishing research on a method it calls Collaborative Generation with Non-Parametric Sampling, a system that generates a visual stream in response to users' interests and consumption trends, where collective user behaviour guides what is generated and newly generated images become reference images for later rounds. In practice that means the feed is meant to evolve with the taste of its audience rather than relying on a fixed catalog of promotional imagery, and the scenes themselves are intended to be shoppable down to individual items.
The launch is being announced on X by Omer Bar-Tal, a computer vision researcher who studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science and has been a research lead at Runway after serving as a Founding Scientist at Pika . That background, focused on video and image generation research, gives useful context for why Dalet Labs is approaching commerce as a generation problem rather than a recommendation problem, and why its first product is a visual app rather than a model API.
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Niyi Adeyemi4h ago
The hook on this video gets to the product in under four seconds, which is honestly rare. Whoever cut this understands that nobody is sticking around for a founder monologue.
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Maeva Carter3h ago
The tweet copy is almost rude in how little it explains. Three words and a link, respect the confidence even if it costs you clicks.
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Priya Kathait4h ago
Generative Commerce is a cute phrase but what am I actually buying. The landing page made me scroll three times before I understood the pitch.
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Priya Kathait3h ago
Update: watched the full video twice, I get it now, and the onboarding in the app is genuinely smoother than I expected. Retracting half my snark.
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Omar Khoury4h ago
Cool demo but every one of these products collapses the moment a user types something weird like 'a shirt that smells like my ex.' Would love to see unscripted queries.
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Lotta Bergqvist4h ago
Interesting space but what does repeat purchase look like when every item is one-of-one. Curious how you underwrite inventory risk here.
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Sora Nakagawa4h ago
How small is the team behind this? The polish on both the site and the launch asset suggests either four people who do not sleep or a very patient designer.
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Yacine Benzitouni4h ago
Ops question nobody is asking: who fulfills the stuff that gets generated. Pretty pixels are easy, pick-pack-ship on bespoke SKUs is where dreams go to die.
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Dasha Mitrikova3h ago
Been teasing my own commerce-AI thing for weeks and these folks just shipped. Back to the drawing board, well played Omer.
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Dalet Labs is launching what it calls the first Generative Commerce app, an iOS experience where every object in a generated scene is a real product you can buy. The pitch is aimed at shoppers who browse to figure out what they want rather than searching for something specific, with the app serving as a visual feed that surfaces styles, products, and combinations a user might not have thought to look up on their own. Early access is invite only through the company's website, which positions this launch as the first consumer-facing output from a team that has been working in stealth on generative models for retail discovery. Under the hood, the company is publishing research on a method it calls Collaborative Generation with Non-Parametric Sampling, a system that generates a visual stream in response to users' interests and consumption trends, where collective user behaviour guides what is generated and newly generated images become reference images for later rounds. In practice that means the feed is meant to evolve with the taste of its audience rather than relying on a fixed catalog of promotional imagery, and the scenes themselves are intended to be shoppable down to individual items. The launch is being announced on X by Omer Bar-Tal, a computer vision researcher who studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science and has been a research lead at Runway after serving as a Founding Scientist at Pika . That background, focused on video and image generation research, gives useful context for why Dalet Labs is approaching commerce as a generation problem rather than a recommendation problem, and why its first product is a visual app rather than a model API.
Comments (9)
The hook on this video gets to the product in under four seconds, which is honestly rare. Whoever cut this understands that nobody is sticking around for a founder monologue.
The tweet copy is almost rude in how little it explains. Three words and a link, respect the confidence even if it costs you clicks.
Generative Commerce is a cute phrase but what am I actually buying. The landing page made me scroll three times before I understood the pitch.
Update: watched the full video twice, I get it now, and the onboarding in the app is genuinely smoother than I expected. Retracting half my snark.
Cool demo but every one of these products collapses the moment a user types something weird like 'a shirt that smells like my ex.' Would love to see unscripted queries.
Interesting space but what does repeat purchase look like when every item is one-of-one. Curious how you underwrite inventory risk here.
How small is the team behind this? The polish on both the site and the launch asset suggests either four people who do not sleep or a very patient designer.
Ops question nobody is asking: who fulfills the stuff that gets generated. Pretty pixels are easy, pick-pack-ship on bespoke SKUs is where dreams go to die.
Been teasing my own commerce-AI thing for weeks and these folks just shipped. Back to the drawing board, well played Omer.