At the 2026 Bund Conference main forum, Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi said merchants’
demand for AI-era growth is strong. Many merchants want to join an AI-agent
economy but are still exploring how to convert their services into
agent-callable capabilities, and supply and demand have not yet formed a
virtuous cycle. He said Alipay's "Abao" will introduce a developer incentive
policy to support creation of usable, high-quality agents and to provide
incentive channels for users to express new demand.