Alipay today launched a major AI agent upgrade (“Ah Bao” in Chinese), enabling its one billion users to find services more easily and execute daily tasks with the help of its AI agent interface.
Users can access over 10,000 everyday services, from hailing rides to ordering food and booking home appliance repairs, through natural conversations after switching to the AI agent version of Alipay with a simple swipe to the right on its homepage.
Alipay introduces its full-stack AI payment solution to partners across industries, ranging from AI companies to traditional retailers, and debuted two new services — the world’s first AI Wallet and Token Pay — to support the agentic economy’s rapid growth.
This launch extends Alipay's next-generation AI payment infrastructure, building on its consumer-facing product Alipay AI Pay and its business-facing AI payment processing product.
Alipay AI Pay has launched a new capability that enables users to authorize AI to handle payments on their behalf in delegated purchase scenarios. This capability is already live on Taobao, enabling shoppers to authorize an AI assistant to make purchases on their behalf.
How it works: when a user tells the AI shopping assistant what they want in the Taobao app, Alipay AI Pay generates a one-time delegation for that specific purchase. Once the user completes identity verification, the AI monitors prices and places the order as instructed.
With daily API calls surpassing 30 million, Bocha has deployed its paid skill “bocha-web-search-a2m” on AI agents including Alipay Tbox and Hermes Agent.
Alipay today launched a new AI payment processing product that enables businesses, large and small, including One Person Companies (OPCs) in the Chinese mainland, to receive payments seamlessly when autonomous AI agents, including OpenClaw-type agents, purchase their services.
Bocha, an AI-powered search tool offering web search support for AI applications including DeepSeek, has already adopted Alipay’s AI payment processing product, transforming advanced web search capabilities into a standard, pay-per-use service.
At the Auto China 2026, Banma Intelligence and Alipay today launched a new AI cockpit solution integrating Alipay AI Pay, enabling drivers to complete purchases by voice command directly from their vehicle.
For example, utilizing Banma Intelligence’s Yan AI and Alipay AI Pay’s capabilities, drivers can initiate a transaction by saying “help me buy two movie tickets.” The AI cockpit system can select showtimes and seats, with drivers able to complete payment by voice confirmation.
Alipay has launched a new AI Pay-powered payment service that enables OpenClaw-type AI agents to make purchases and complete payments based on user instructions.
The use of the new service requires no coding or complex setup, and includes multi-layer security safeguards for every transaction, making AI agents with Alipay more capable and effective.
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Chinese consumers can now use the Qwen app to hail a ride and pay with Alipay AI Pay 👇
Just 3 simple steps:
1. Ask Qwen for a ride
2. Select your vehicle and price & confirm
3. Pay with Alipay AI Pay after the trip