Visa unveils commerce platform enabling autonomous AI shopping

Visa is rolling out a platform that helps merchants make their product inventories discoverable and purchasable by AI agents.

Credit card giant Visa has ventured further into the agentic AI payments race, announcing a new platform on Wednesday to help businesses participate in AI-driven commerce.

In a statement on Wednesday, Visa described Intelligent Commerce Connect as a network, protocol, and “token vault-agnostic ‘on-ramp’” to agentic commerce for AI agent builders and merchants.

The system serves as a universal platform for agentic AI payments, which means AI agents acting for consumers can browse, select and pay for goods.

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