On October 15, Time magazine unveiled its 2026 Best Inventions list, featuring Alipay AI Payment and Ant Aifu, a health AI app from Ant Group. Alipay AI Payment is the only payment service on the list, with over 100 million users and 300 million transactions; Ant Aifu is the only Chinese AI app selected this year.
Alipay's AI payment service won the "Best AI Practice" award at The Digital Banker's 2026 Global Cards & Payments Innovation Awards, in recognition of its full-stack AI payment system and 300 million completed AI agent payments.
Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi said AI payments are not the final step but the trusted commitment engine for agent commerce. Alipay announced its AI payments are moving from 'payable' to 'trustworthy,' introducing an AI wallet agent, Vibe Pay, Skill Pay and Machine Pay, along with new scenarios such as AI recurring purchases, and applying the APASS trust infrastructure.
<body><div>Alipay partners with OPPO. AI agents Abao and Xiaobu achieve two-way linkage, enabling deep integration of on-device assistant with Alipay services. OPPO users</div></body>
Alipay has upgraded its "Tap" feature with AI, transforming millions of merchant devices into "Tap Device Agents." It also launched the "Tap Everything Agent" platform for small and medium businesses.
Alipay has launched its AI Open Platform, inviting enterprise developers and service providers to participate in testing. Merchants can integrate the AI assistant Abao to enhance and upgrade their services.
Alipay has launched an AI open platform that offers AI capabilities to merchants, institutions, and service providers, marking a deeper AI strategy. The key shift is
<body><div>Alipay announced that 'AI Payment' has completed 300 million AI agent transactions, supporting 95% of general AI agent frameworks, making it the world's first l</div></body>
<body><div>At the Alipay AI Payment Ecosystem Conference on May 26th, MiniMax and StepZhou reached a strategic cooperation with Alipay, and their AI-native products will b</div></body>