Indian shoppers will soon be able to shop and pay for things while talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the government entity behind the United Payments Interface (UPI), has announced a partnership with OpenAI and Razorpay to enable direct payments via ChatGPT.

The move comes after Google and Perplexity announced their own AI-powered payment services. Razorpay has now revealed that it has started privately testing the beta version of Agentic Payments, a feature that lets users complete transactions without leaving the AI platform they are using.

According to Reuters , the ongoing pilot will help determine how UPI can be used “to autonomously complete transactions on behalf of users in a safe, secure and user-controlled manner.” In ca

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