Alipay has officially launched "Alipay AI Pay," a new service designed to help merchants and individual developers commercialize their offerings through AI Agents like OpenClaw, enabling instant payment collection per service call.

For example, after a user installs a certain Skill and asks "Lobster" to "help compile the latest analysis report on the AI industry," Lobster sends a resource request and price inquiry to the server. The user then receives a prompt stating, "Payment of 0.02 yuan is required to obtain the result." Once the user downloads and installs the "Alipay AI Pay" Skill, authorizes the transaction, and completes the payment, the resource service becomes accessible.

Additionally, merchants already using Alipay for payment acceptance can directly integrate their service Skills into AI Agents such as Lobster. When a user issues a command and places an order, the payment is automatically processed without the need to set up separate payment collection tools.