India, Feb. 20 -- Imagine asking an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant what looks an otherwise simple enough question, "what to order for dinner", and seamlessly proceed to the "order is on the way" stage, within the same conversation. That's the world of agentic AI payments that Razorpay, India's largest payment aggregator, envisions. The fintech, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, has announced agentic payments on Anthropic's Claude. It is, as Rahul Kothari, who is chief operating officer at Razorpay tells HT, "commerce being re-architected".

This is the coming together of Razorpay's Agentic Payments feature, India's UPI infrastructure led by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), and Claude's conversational intelligen...