Visa Launches AI Commerce Platform for Agentic Payments
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Visa announced a new platform on Wednesday designed to let AI agents browse, select, and pay for goods and services on behalf of consumers, marking another step in the payments giant's push into agentic commerce. The product, called Intelligent Commerce Connect, is described by Visa as a network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic entry point to AI-driven shopping for merchants and agent builders. Intelligent Commerce Connect is currently in a pilot phase with select partners, with a broader rollout planned for later in 2026. This is not Visa's first foray into agentic payments. In March, the company announced an experimental tool called Visa CLI, which allows AI agents to make same-day payments. AI fintech firm Nevermined announced a separate but related integration this week, connecting to Visa's Intelligent Commerce platform using Coinbase's x402 protocol. The integration allows AI agents to purchase digital goods and services autonomously. Users set spending rules at enrollment, AI agents transact within those rules, and merchants receive payment through their existing processors. Erik Reppel, creator of the x402 protocol, said the system provides "an open standard to request payment programmatically" and demonstrates how card infrastructure and protocol-level payment rails can work together. According to the x402 protocol's own website, the network has processed $24...
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