Alipay Debuts ‘Abao’ as an AI-First Redesign, Raising Stakes in China’s Super-App Agent Race
Alipay has launched invitation-only testing of Abao, an AI assistant positioned as the platform’s biggest redesign and a shift toward conversational, AI-native service delivery. The move could accelerate competition with other super apps by making payments and daily services a primary battleground for agentic task execution.