At the 2026 INCLUSION · Conference on the Bund in Shanghai, Ah Bao, Alipay's super AI Agent and Starbucks showcased a new AI service “Coffee Alarm Clock”, allowing users to set up recurring coffee orders with a simple instruction.
And coffee is just the beginning. As Ah Bao expands collaboration to more merchants and brands, it is moving beyond answering questions to managing a wide range of recurring daily tasks, from coffee orders to scheduling rides in advance.
Since its launch in June 2026, Ah Bao has offered 10,000+ AI-powered services through natural conversations, spanning 12+ everyday categories. Major brands including McDonald’s, KFC and Haidilao have also integrated their services with Ah Bao.
Powered by Alipay’s AHA protocol for cross-agent and cross-device interoperability, the platform also enables merchants to connect with the broader Ah Bao ecosystem, extending their reach beyond Alipay users to consumers across smartphones, cars, AI glasses, and AI applications.
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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.