Ant International’s next payments bet: AI agents

Tech in Asia reports that Ant International began with a mission to take Alipay abroad. A decade later, it connects 50-plus wallets through Alipay+, powered 2 billion-plus cross-border transactions in 2025 and has raised US$1.2 billion to expand globally. The publisher describes AI agents—not building frontier AI—as the company’s next payments bet.