(14 May 2025 – Global) Stripe has released innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to automate business purchases, imagining systems capable of making the traditional eCommerce experience obsolete.
Stripe highlighted a suite of 60 new products and updates, including an upcoming agentic payment system capable of making online purchases on behalf of users.
In a live demonstration, Stripe President of Product and Business, William Gaybrick, deployed an AI agent that bought a book through an online webstore with minimal instruction and tasked an agent with purchasing each item recommended by a skincare blog, removing the need to click each third-party link and process every purchase manually.
“LLMs are phenomenal at getting to the point of purchase, but they’re not built to navigate complex checkout forms, securely stored payment credentials, handling payment authentication, and so on. Today we’re beginning to solve that, with a brand new API that lets anyone create a commerce agent in just a few seconds” Gaybrick commented.
“Emerging AI tools could ultimately change the way eCommerce websites look and operate.”
The announcements came amid Stripe’s renewed commitment to stablecoins, with the company promising to deliver USDC-denominated corporate cards through the Visa payment network. Citi forecasts that the total outstanding supply of stablecoins could expand from US$230 billion to as much as US$3.7 trillion by 2030.