{"id":200018,"date":"2025-10-09T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200018\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:28:06","slug":"india-rolls-out-pilot-for-e-commerce-payments-via-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200018\/","title":{"rendered":"India rolls out pilot for e-commerce payments via ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -India&#8217;s payments authority National Payments Corporation of India and fintech firm Razorpay have collaborated with Microsoft-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> to launch AI-driven payments on ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The initiative, currently in the pilot stage, will allow users to make purchases on ChatGPT, facilitated by India&#8217;s homegrown payments network Unified Payments Interface (UPI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The pilot will evaluate how the service can be expanded across verticals and how UPI can be used to enable AI agents with payment credentials &#8220;to autonomously complete transactions on behalf of users in a safe, secure, and user-controlled manner,&#8221; the companies said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Axis Bank and Airtel Payments Bank are the banking partners for the pilot, and Tata Group-owned e-commerce platform Bigbasket is among the first platforms to allow customers to shop through ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to work with NPCI and explore how we can combine advanced AI with UPI, one of the world\u2019s most trusted real-time payment networks, to unlock a new era of effortless and secure commerce,&#8221; Oliver Jay, managing director of international strategy at OpenAI said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">UPI, India&#8217;s leading fast payments network, processes over 20 billion transactions every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Ashwin Manikandan in Mumbai and Kashish Tandon in Bengaluru; Editing by Sumana Nandy and Mrigank Dhaniwala)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -India&#8217;s payments authority National Payments Corporation of India and fintech firm Razorpay have collaborated with Microsoft-backed OpenAI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,1209,203,17571,105,14580],"class_list":{"0":"post-200018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-payments","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-unified-payments-interface"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}