Alipay AI Pay Launches PAYATHON 2026, a Hackathon Judged on Whether AI Products Get Paying Users

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone at 25 Oct, 01:57 UTC

Alipay AI Pay opened PAYATHON 2026 for developers of apps, skills and agents, with five payment tracks, a prize pool of 200,000 yuan and judging that weighs real paying users.