Visa Launches AI Agent Payment Platform

Visa Inc. announced on Wednesday the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new platform designed to enable businesses worldwide to participate in AI-driven agentic commerce, where artificial intelligence agents act on behalf of consumers to browse, select and complete payments for goods and services.

The platform serves as a universal onramp for AI agent builders, merchants and other ecosystem participants, functioning independently of specific networks, protocols or token vaults. Through a single integration with the Visa Acceptance Platform, it supports secure payment initiation, tokenization, spend controls and authentication. It accommodates both Visa and non-Visa card payments and integrates with major AI agent protocols, including the Trusted Agent Protocol, Machine Payments Protocol and others. Merchants can make their product catalogs discoverable within AI platforms, allowing agents to access details such as descriptions, specifications and prices for seamless transactions.

Intelligent Commerce Connect builds on Visa's earlier efforts in agentic payments. In March, the company introduced Visa CLI, an experimental tool enabling AI agents to execute same-day payments....