Alipay opens an agentic commerce stack

Alipay launched what it calls China’s first full-stack agentic commerce platform, combining merchant tools, AI Skills, MCP-based integrations, payments, identity, and risk controls for agent-mediated transactions, as coverage of the launch explains. Its consumer agent Ah Bao already exposes more than 10,000 AI-enabled everyday services, while Alipay’s platform is designed to let merchants make products and payments callable by agents; commerce teams should file this as a distribution and authorization layer, alongside the archive’s analysis of conversational intent becoming an ad market.