PayPal showcases agentic AI tools, collaborations at Dev Days event

PayPal Holdings Inc. gathered developers, AI leaders, and partners from around the world for its Dev Days event, held April 29 through May 1, to spotlight its advancements in agentic commerce and demonstrate the company's latest AI-powered developer tools.

The event marked a significant step in what PayPal calls the "agentic commerce revolution"—the use of AI agents to autonomously facilitate transactions, manage shopping workflows, and streamline commerce operations.

According to PayPal, agentic commerce represents an emerging frontier where AI can transact on behalf of consumers and businesses, fundamentally changing how people shop and pay.

"Over 25 years ago, PayPal made history by simplifying digital money movement. Today, we are charting the next era: the era of agentic commerce," said Alex Chriss, PayPal's president and CEO, during his keynote address.

New tools, collaborations

Throughout Dev Days, PayPal demonstrated its new developer tools designed to accelerate agentic commerce adoption, including the industry's first remote MCP server and the PayPal Agent Toolkit. PayPal stated that these tools enable developers to create AI-powered workflows that manage payments, order processing, shipping and other commerce operations with greater efficiency, observability and adaptability.

The three-day event featured collaborations with leading AI companies, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft. Google Cloud demonstrated an AI shopping companion integrating its Gemini-powered chat experience with PayPal's commerce tools through an Agent to Agent protocol.

"With Google Cloud's agent interoperability protocol and tools, PayPal can enable merchants to transform the commerce experience with AI-powered personalized and seamless shopping journeys, all while upholding strong consumer protection and privacy," said Ali Arsanjani, director of applied AI engineering at Google Cloud.

AWS showcased how businesses could transform product ideas into digital campaigns using PayPal's Agent Toolkit alongside Amazon's Nova foundation models. "The ability to scan physical products and instantly create shoppable digital storefronts is just the beginning of what's possible," said Rahul Pathak, vice president of data and AI go-to-market at AWS.

Microsoft highlighted its work with PayPal to help retailers build AI-powered personalized ecommerce experiences using Azure AI.

Hackathon competition

Beyond demos, Dev Days included a hackathon where developers used PayPal's new agentic AI tools to build and present innovative prototypes. Participants gained hands-on experience with PayPal's server-side SDK, Vault and Checkout infrastructure, and advanced recommendation APIs. Final projects were showcased in a demo lightning round, with awards recognizing creativity and technical achievement.

The event also offered a pitch workshop hosted by PayPal Ventures, providing early-stage fintech startups an opportunity to present business plans and receive feedback from investors.

PayPal emphasized that its agentic AI tools are part of a broader vision to make its Open platform a foundation for the next generation of commerce. The company claimed that its global network, extensive data, and trusted brand position it to help merchants and developers build secure, intelligent, and scalable commerce solutions.

"Together with our passionate developer community, PayPal is leading the agentic commerce revolution," said Srini Venkatesan, PayPal's chief technology officer.

For PayPal, Dev Days served as both a showcase of innovation and a call to action for developers to help shape what it described as a new era of anticipatory, AI-driven commerce.

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