
Alipay launches agent prize to unlock AI’s ‘eight hours beyond work’
AI agents could make services that once relied on scarce experts or were too costly to deliver at scale available to a much wider population.

AI agents could make services that once relied on scarce experts or were too costly to deliver at scale available to a much wider population.
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Rather than positioning AI solely as a tool for answering questions, Alipay is turning it into an operating system for brick-and-mortar commerce.

Instead of searching for services manually, users can ask the assistant to perform tasks or surface the relevant service directly.

The overhaul is being viewed as one of the most significant changes in Alipay’s history.
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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.

Transactions made via overseas bank cards bound to Alipay accounts and through Alipay+ partner wallets both saw strong growth compared with the same period last year.