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One criticism of computer use platforms and other search agents is that if you use to find a product or hotel, you cannot complete any transactions within a single window.
Mastercard Its purpose is to replace AI companies and platforms into the network of payments, enabling consumers and businesses to transform their respective environmental systems without interruption. The company announced today Agent’s paymentA new payment program that brings the mastercard payment system to the AI ​​chat platform.
MasterCard Chief Data and AI Officer, Greg Alrich, told Venture Bat in an interview that the agent “closes the loop” on the packet agent’s search.
“You want to close the loop within the experience of enabling the customer’s experience potentially effectively, which is why we are trying to enable today,” said Alorich. “You have to make sure that everyone in the environmental system can identify agents and confirm the agent to handle the transaction safely and safely.”
Open AI, Anthropic and anxiety MasterCard payment network, which can include other network participants – traders, card users and financial institutions to trust the platform transactions and check any potential fraud. It also enables the mastercard to bring in these companies to bring their fraud and transaction dispute system.
The MasterCard contributed with Microsoft, IBM, Brothers, and Checkout.com to measure the agent’s salary, argue the system and enhance other features for traders. The agent’s salary will also be associated with banks and other financial institutions.
Make the agent search more useful
Over the past one year, we have seen that the AI ​​-powered search for your computer to actively use your computer is just prepared from the information list.. This platform Enable users to ask AI models to find the Internet for any information. It can make recommendations for viewing products or places. The search for AI has proved to be popular.
This week, the Openi even announced it Including shopping features to Chat GPT searchRunning on GPT-4O, in search of products in search of Google’s longtime dominance.
However, users have always found that if they see a contract, they need to open a separate window.
“We are going to work with AI platforms and agents so that they can reach the ship and access technology,” said Pablo Forces, chief digital officer of the MasterCard.
Bringing these platforms into a payment system like a mastercard makes them more useful, because they can not only serve as a place where people find information, but also as a platform where users can find and transactions.
When AI companies are part of the payment network, it can also improve any agent work flu built by businesses. Imagine an agent workflow that includes searching for new suppliers, finding a suitable supplier, helping negotiation, drafting contracts and establishing transactions through the platform.
The company is discussing the integration of Microsoft’s Co -Co -Co -and -Ozver/Open AI Services.
Tokens instead of AI
However, the agent’s salary is not based on production AI, though MasterCard takes advantage of technology for other products.
The agent relies on the company’s Tokinization technology, which uses secret care to assist in a personal identity (PII) mask during digital transactions.
“This is a separate number that is useless if it is not used in the context of the transactions you have adopted,” said the fore. “It is obtained through cryptography that makes the transaction unique to every transaction, and if anyone else gets this information, they cannot do anything with it.”
The mastercard uses Generative AI and large language models to detect fraud, which Alrich has worked in conjunction with the agent’s salary, as its AI models confirm the transactions transactions of fraud when they begin.
Alorich allows every company and a person involved in the confidence of the transaction that “works in this ecosystem.”
“We are making sure that we safely and safely identify these players in the ecosystem, that we have a way to safely hold and hold the credentials,” he said.