“Time” magazine published the 2026 “Best Inventions” list, and Alipay AI Pay, a subsidiary of Ant Group, was selected, becoming the only payment service on the list in the world, and the same yearly benchmark as Apple's iPhone Duo and Anthropic Claude Code. “Era” points out the significance of its selection with “When AI Goes Shopping”: AI is moving from information interaction to consumer transactions, and a new commercial era is beginning. Since its launch last year, Alipay's AI payment users have exceeded 100 million, and the cumulative number of transactions has exceeded 300 million. At the same time, Ant Afu, a health AI owned by Ant Group, was also selected for the annual list, and is the only AI application on the list in China.

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