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Visa partners with OpenAI to enable AI purchase agents

6/11/2026

Summary

Visa partners OpenAI

Visa Inc. announced a partnership with OpenAI on June 10 to enable AI agents to make purchases.
The deal integrates Visa’s network, tokenisation and fraud monitoring so agents can pay without exposing card numbers.
Transactions use single-use tokens and allow users to set spending limits, merchant rules and approval prompts.
Visa and OpenAI will also explore enterprise applications such as procurement, invoicing, reconciliation and OpenAI’s Codex under Visa Intelligent Commerce.

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Visa, OpenAI collaborate

Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol is on GitHub and includes Microsoft, Stripe, Shopify and Worldpay.
Mastercard is developing a competing initiative called Agent Pay.
OpenAI and Stripe created the Agentic Commerce Protocol for ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout.
An industry estimate says only about 4% of consumers let AI agents purchase autonomously.
Visa and OpenAI disclosed no launch date, pricing or UI, framing the partnership as a statement of intent.

History

Historical Context

Apple unveiled Apple Pay on September 9 2014 after a token-payment project that began in January 2013 with Visa, Mastercard and American Express. About 750 Visa engineers spent a year developing the single-use token system, which launched with 220,000 merchants in the United States and abroad and set a standard that later drove mobile-payment competition and regulatory scrutiny.

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Visa partners OpenAI

Visa Inc. announced a partnership with OpenAI on June 10 to enable AI agents to make purchases.
The deal integrates Visa’s network, tokenisation and fraud monitoring so agents can pay without exposing card numbers.
Transactions use single-use tokens and allow users to set spending limits, merchant rules and approval prompts.
Visa and OpenAI will also explore enterprise applications such as procurement, invoicing, reconciliation and OpenAI’s Codex under Visa Intelligent Commerce.

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