- Ant Group expands push into AI-native payment infrastructure
- Platform now supports most major agent frameworks and smart devices
Alipay, Alibaba’s digital payment tool, said its AI-driven payment system has processed more than 300 million transactions conducted by autonomous AI agents, as parent company Ant Group accelerates efforts to build payment infrastructure for machine-to-machine e-commerce.
The company announced the milestone on May 26 at its AI payment ecosystem conference, describing the platform as the world’s first large-scale commercial AI-native payment infrastructure.
Ant Group Chief Executive Officer Han Xinyi said the rise of AI agents is reshaping how transactions are initiated and completed.
“In the AI era, the nature of commerce remains unchanged, but the emergence of agents as a new participant is restructuring everything,” Han said.
“Leveraging 22 years of technology accumulation and commercial know-how, Alipay is building a new generation of AI payment services to support the next wave of digital commerce,” he added.
Alongside the transaction milestone, Alipay unveiled what it described as the world’s first Token Pay service and a consumer-focused AI wallet product.
Combined with previously launched AI payment and AI collection tools, the offerings form a broader AI-native payment stack covering authorization, payment processing, settlement, security and trust management.
95% of AI agent frameworks
The company said its payment infrastructure now supports 95% of mainstream AI agent frameworks, including systems such as Qwen, JVS Claw, Claude Code and Hermes Agent.
The platform is also integrated into AI-enabled hardware and applications including Qwen AI glasses, Rokid devices, AI earphones, smart vehicle cockpits from automakers such as Li Auto, Chery Automobile, Geely and Dongfeng Motor Group, as well as AI development tools including TRAE SOLO, Qoder and Coze.
Alipay said the transaction volume follows an earlier milestone in which both cumulative payment users and payment counts surpassed 100 million.
The company framed the development as part of a broader transition from traditional person-to-person commerce toward interactions between humans and AI agents, as well as agent-to-agent transactions.
To address trust and security concerns, Alipay said it worked with more than 20 ecosystem partners to upgrade the ACT protocol to version 2.0, designed to provide a common interaction framework for agents operating safely across devices and systems.
Core strategic priorities
The company also developed payment security protocols for A2A, or agent-to-agent, and A2M, agent-to-machine, interactions, covering identity verification and runtime security protections.
Ant Group said AI payments have become one of the company’s core strategic priorities.
The firm plans to expand the technology domestically through Alipay while using its international business arm to support overseas customers seeking AI-enabled payment services.
