Ant International and Google have entered into a cooperation focused on the new open standard for Agentic Commerce, the "Universal Commerce Protocol" (UCP). This collaboration aims to advance AI agent technology, enabling comprehensive support across the entire shopping process—including browsing, purchasing, and post-sales services—thereby fostering a new AI-driven commerce ecosystem.
UCP establishes a common interaction language, allowing AI agents to efficiently collaborate across systems, including consumer interfaces, merchant backends, and payment providers, thereby facilitating commercial activities. By adopting the UCP protocol, developers no longer need to establish individual connections for each agent, as all agents can easily achieve interoperability based on this protocol. Currently, several global payment and retail giants have also joined this Google-initiated protocol.
Yang Jiangming, Chief Innovation Officer of Ant International, stated that trustworthy and reliable agent solutions need to provide merchants with three core capabilities. First, merchants can comprehensively manage AI algorithms, ensuring that the consumer experience aligns closely with their brand image and service standards while automating shopping interactions. Second, leveraging its technological and scale advantages in the e-wallet payment sector, Ant International has developed an agent payment solution specifically designed for e-wallet scenarios. Through its self-developed Antom EasySafePay, e-wallet users can complete transactions without leaving the AI interaction interface.
Utilizing multiple AI security technologies, Ant International has enabled verifiable and traceable transactions in agent interactions, clarified the responsibilities of all parties involved in the payment cycle, and effectively intercepted fraudulent transactions. Additionally, if a user's account is compromised, corresponding compensation protection is available.
It is reported that Ant International has already collaborated with leading large-scale model providers such as Qianwen and DeepSeek across various business scenarios, including payments, customer service, risk control, and credit, exploring pathways for the scalable application of AI in serving B2B merchants and institutions—particularly to meet the strong demand driven by rapid economic growth and diverse payment ecosystems in emerging markets.
Furthermore, related data shows that Ant International's business now covers over 200 global markets, connecting more than 1.8 billion user accounts and 150 million merchants.
(Reporter: Huang Anqi | English Editor: Liu Yu)
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